It's happening.
>http://www.computerworld.com/article/3086072/computer-hardware/intel-pits-monster-72-core-xeon-phi-chip-against-gpus.html
>>61131902
Xeon phi != desktop cpu
Xeon phi != GPU
You can run x86 code on a Phi, but if you wanted to do something like run VMs or whatever it would run very, very poorly. So poorly you should spend the $5k on a different CPU.
>>61131902
So realistically what are the scientific applications for this thing?
>>61132011
When the previous one came out it had better DPFP performance compared to the alternatives. It was also much more flexible, one could even load an OS and chroot into it.
>>61131902
>>61131938
>>61132011
>>61132038
didn't intel recently buy a licence for graphics stuff from AMD?
>>61132844
No, fake news from shills.
>>61131902
>72 1.5GHz Atoms slapped onto a daughterboard
mother of god
>2016