Intel announces Xeon Phi brand for enterprise systems

Intel has disclosed new technical details of the first commercially-available product from its Intel Xeon Phi product family - a co-processor codenamed “Knights Corner”. In addition to delivering strong performance for highly parallel applications, Intel Xeon Phi co-processor’s ease of use is bolstered by the benefits of familiar programming models, techniques and developer tools available with Intel architecture. With greater use of parallel CPU code, software companies and IT departments do not have to retrain developers on proprietary programming models associated with accelerators.

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