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The great x86 pivot: Intel and AMD break for new markets in 2014

The great x86 pivot: Intel and AMD break for new markets in 2014

2014 will be a year of tremendous change for both Intel and AMD. Both companies are responding to rapidly shifting market dynamics as the computing market continues its greatest product transition since the PC debuted nearly forty years ago. The two CPU manufacturers are attacking this shift from different directions and with different product strategies; we’ll start with Intel first. ...

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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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