Intel has announced its new family of Xeon Phi co-processors — previously code-named Knights Corner — which includes 50 x86 cores, embedded Linux, and at least 8GB of GDDR5 RAM.

At Intel's November investor meeting, though, data center group chief Diane Bryant claimed the 14-nanometer Knights Corner Xeon Phi chip features 7.1 billion transistors.

Intel announced during the International Supercomputing Conference that Intel Xeon Phi is the new brand name for all future Intel Many Integrated Core Architecture (Intel MIC Architecture ...

Intel revealed at the annual SC conference that its second generation Xeon Phi co-processor, codenamed Knights Landing, is nearly ready for general availability. The chipmaker said it has already ...

Intel says 44 companies have already signed up to use Xeon Phi, including Bull, Cray, Dell, HP, IBM, Inspur, SGI and NEC. It has already promised to hit Exascale performance by 2018.

The idea behind Intel's new push is that the highly efficient Xeon E5 architecture (eight-core Sandy Bridge on 32nm) fuels the basic x86 cluster, while the Many Integrated Core CPUs that grew out ...