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Intel unveils 72-core x86 Knights Landing CPU for exascale supercomputing

Intel unveils 72-core x86 Knights Landing CPU for exascale supercomputing

Intel has taken the wraps off Knights Landing, its next-gen, up-to-72-core Xeon Phi supercomputing chip. The main change is that Knights Landing will be a standalone processor, rather than a slot-in coprocessor that must be paired with standard Xeon CPU. Furthermore, Knights Landing will have up to 16GB of DRAM 3D stacked on-package, providing up to 500GB/sec of memory bandwidth ...

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