By: Aaron Spink (aaronspink.delete@this.notearthlink.net), January 10, 2015 5:32 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
juanrga (nospam.delete@this.juanrga.com) on January 10, 2015 4:10 pm wrote:
> They can call it "X" if they want, but doesn't change anything important.
>
Well except for the fact that no current GPU is actually a manycore.
> He said exactly "Intel Phi is going away from manycore", which is untrue. As
> chief architect of KNL mentions "Knights Landing will be the first true many-core
> processor to address today's memory and I/O performance challenges".
>
Once again you confuse marketing with reality. KNL isn't a manycore and in fact is less like a manycore than KNC.
> They can call it "X" if they want, but doesn't change anything important.
>
Well except for the fact that no current GPU is actually a manycore.
> He said exactly "Intel Phi is going away from manycore", which is untrue. As
> chief architect of KNL mentions "Knights Landing will be the first true many-core
> processor to address today's memory and I/O performance challenges".
>
Once again you confuse marketing with reality. KNL isn't a manycore and in fact is less like a manycore than KNC.