Eric (eric.kjellen.delete@this.gmail.com) on November 19, 2013 8:48 pm wrote:
> none (none.delete@this.none.com) on November 19, 2013 2:19 am wrote:
> > Urban Novak (urban.novak.delete@this.seznam.cz) on November 19, 2013 1:49 am wrote:
> > > Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com) on November 18, 2013 3:57 pm wrote:
> > >
> > > > Exactly.
> > > > Taking into account how irrelevant Knights Landing is to Intel's bottom line, any
> > > > core option except minimally improved Knights Corner is extremely unlikely.
> > > >
> > >
> > > There are about 56000 Xeon Phi cards in 50 fastest supercomputers, price of one card is somewhere
> > > between $1500-$4000. It looks like Intel's revenue on Xeon Phi about 100 mil. USD.
> >
> > Do you really think they paid list price?
>
> Probably not, but on the other hand they probably sold more chips
> than just the ones that went into the 50 fastest supercomputers.

The market for nVidia Tesla's might be around $100M per quarter, so maybe the entire market is around $500M per year. Or a bit higher. The margins are high and Intel would like this, I'd think.

(*) Quattro plus Tesla sales were about $220M for nVidia's last fiscal Q4.