Don't call it Knots Landing: next Xeon Phi detailed
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Intel's sequel to Knight's Corner is more than just a fresh coat of paint. We've been hearing about the Xeon Phi successor for a while now, and the company released a torrent of new information at Hot Chips, detailed by Serve The Home.
Knights Landing-based Xeon Phis (Xeons Phi?) are built using tiles. A tile contains a pair of x86 cores based on the Silvermont microachitecture with customizations for HPC, which are fed by 1MB of L2 cache. Each core can track ...