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Intel Knights Ferry (Larrabee) caught on photo
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German tech site ComputerBase got their hands on an engineering sample of Intel's Knights Ferry, an Larrabee-based software development platform for the high-performance computing (HPC) market, the research that went into this project is not entirely lost: The company announced that it will be releasing many core processors (“many integrated core”, or short mic) based on Larrabee x86 technology. The first device, code-named Knights Ferry, has reached prototype status and is shipping to “select developers.”
Knights Ferry will have 32 cores, each running at 1.2 GHz. The device will have 8 MB coherent cache 1 or 2 GB of GDDR5 memory and run 128 threads (4 threads per core).
Further down the road, Intel plans a 50+ core product code-named Knights Corner, which will use a 22 nm manufacturing process. Since 22 nm products will not be available until very late 2011, it is reasonable to assume that Knights Corner will be a 2012 or later product.
In effect, Intel’s announcement is not an entirely new strategy, but a change of communication as Larrabee was always intended to become a floating point accelerator as well. The targets, however, are not Nvidia’s and AMD’s graphics cards anymore, but Nvidia’s Tesla, AMD’s ATI FireSteam GPU accelerators as well as Clearspeed’s accelerator boards.
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Izvor: Guru3D
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