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Intel's upcoming Xeon 7 'Diamond Rapids' processors will feature up to 192 Panther Cove cores, 16 DDR5 memory channels, PCIe ...
Intel has quietly notified customers that the Xeon Phi 7295, 7285, and 7235 will be end-of-life'd July 31, 2020, with no further orders for KML after August 9, 2019.
Intel is killing off the Xeon Phi line because the delay in 10 nanometer manufacturing, which both GlobalFoundries and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp can beat with their impending 7 nanometer ...
Intel Xeon Phi processor supports all prior SIMD (vector) instructions, namely Intel MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX and AVX2. The highest performance is always from Intel AVX-512 ...
Intel Xeon Phi processors can have a 16M memory included in the package called “MCDRAM.” The MCDRAM can be used as a cache (effectively an L3 cache), as a high bandwidth memory (scratch memory), or ...
The new device is code-named “Knights Mill” and is not to be confused with the future “Knights Hill” Xeon Phi that is due to come to market in 2018, most likely first in the 180 petaflops “Aurora” ...
Xeon Phi is also allegedly up to 38% better at scaling, according to the data and comparisons that Intel used on the above slide. Nvidia has disputed both of these claims in a recent blog post.
Intel claimed that a Xeon Phi system is 2.3 times faster at training a neural network than a comparable Maxwell GPU system; Nvidia says that if Intel used an up-to-date version of the benchmark ...
For a very slightly fairer comparison, the 4-node Xeon Phi from Intel's presentation sounds like it's around maybe $25K or so, and claims to run this benchmark in 10.5 hours, so it scores 262.5 ...
In a previous article, I noted that microprocessor giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) might be seeing robust demand for its recently released Xeon Phi processor family aimed at high-performance computing ...
Xeon Phi remains a relatively small portion of Intel's data center revenue Although the news around Xeon Phi is certainly good for the company, it's worth noting that revenue from this segment is ...
Here, Intel claims that 128 Xeon Phis will deliver 50 times the performance of a single Phi in training applications, thanks to the Omni-Path interconnect integrated onto the Xeon Phi die.