Did you know the Intel Xeon Phi 7200 Coprocessor product?
Yes the descendants of the Larrabee GPU project that otherwise failed by Intel
is reportedly now retired or in other words has been discontinued existence.
Surprising news that spread online is allegedly derived from
Intel itself is known as the party authorized for it. Indeed the announcement
appears to have been published through one of Intel's forum postings, such as
what is shown by Phoronix, a news blog that is very fond of Linux.
In the existing forum, the responder seemed to complain
about the loss of all references related to the Intel Xeon Phi 7200 Coprocessor
from Intel's official website, including with the presence of MPSS 4.0
software. Meanwhile, one of Intel's representatives finally responded and
confirmed that the termination of product support Intel Xeon Phi 7200
Coprocessor (code-named Knights Landing Coprocessor) from the market as the
impact of the ongoing product evaluation process to provide the best solution
to the challenges of consumers to ahead of him.
With the rapid adoption of the Intel Xeon Phi 7200
processor, Intel has decided not to use the Knights Landing Coprocessor to the
general market. The existence of the Intel Xeon Phi processor remains a key
element of the solution portfolio presented by Intel to provide its customers
the most compelling and competitive solution.
Xeon Phi Knights Landing processor comes in two flavors,
namely: LGA 3647 socket host processor and Add-In Card (AIC) on PCIe installed.
Intel designed Knights Mill products to handle a wide range of AI and HPC
workloads.
The development itself was not entirely unexpected. At the
beginning of the Knight Landing launch, Intel even had time to estimate that at
least more than 50% of customers prefer the host processor variant. Realizing
that, the existence of socket processors is judged to have several important
advantages over the AIC model, such as the bootability capabilities and options
for the 100Gb / s integrated Omni-Path structure.
Knights Landing is the first product to enter the market
using a new mesh topology from Intel, which connects 72 quad-threaded
Silvermont-derived cores into a cohesive unit. The new mesh topology has now
been filtered into Intel Purley and Skylake-X processors.
Meanwhile, Intel has a new Knights Mill products that go
into the market, but Intel still seems not want to reveal the number of cores
that will diusungnya. Obviously, the Knights Mill family is only present as a
host processor, and not on the AIC form factor.
Intel has many options to handle everything related to
machine learning tasks, including the Xilinx FPGA, Nervana ASIC, and Knights
Landing host processors. Still putting Intel's hopes on the existence of host
processors so far, it seems to imply that the Xeon Phi processor will remain an
important part of Intel's portfolio that may at times be re-presented.