Linus Torvalds (torvalds.delete@this.linux-foundation.org) on November 25, 2013 12:29 pm wrote:
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> And the old Atom really was pretty bad at some general-purpose stuff. That VR-zone link
> says KNL is 72 modified Silvermont cores, so it should be much better in that regard.

Side note: that part about the core design isn't confirmed by anything I could find. Did Intel talk about it at SC13 last week? Their press-room only talks about the single-node thing and the SC13 presentation slides show on-package memory, and you can find tons of articles about those. But the only places I find talking about the actual cores are VR-zone and Heise online.

So I do not know where that came from or how credible it is. Not that it sounds wrong.

Linus