juanrga (nospam.delete@this.juanrga.com) on January 3, 2015 1:11 pm wrote:
> Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com) on January 3, 2015 12:36 pm wrote:
> > juanrga (nospam.delete@this.juanrga.com) on January 3, 2015 12:02 pm wrote:
> > > Eric Bron nli (eric.bron.delete@this.zvisuel.com) on January 2, 2015 2:28 pm wrote:
> > > > > I still recall when he pretended that Intel had abandoned manycores with the new Xeon
> > > > > Phi
> > > >
> > > > link ?
> > >
> > > http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=143796&curpostid=143824
> >
> > So, Linus said that KNL is multicore called manycore fore marketing purpose. Where is he wrong?
> >
>
> On that KNL is a manycore not a multicore.

KNL cores are relatively big and fully cache-coherent to each other. To me it sounds much more like multicore than manycore.
The only manycore-like feature is the absence of on-chip LLC.

Anyway, in the absence of consensus definitions of manycore and multicore we can argue about it ad infinitum.