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Chip-maker Intel Corp, which has begun shipping its new Xeon Phi processors targeted at High Performance Computing (HPC) applications, expects to sell more than 100,000 units this year.
“We have interesting sales coming in from each and every country, and these being high performance processors, they can be adopted widely across many sectors. These include geophysics to financial services, and super computers and data centres among others,” said Hugo Saleh, Director of Marketing and Industry Development, Technical Computing Group at Intel Corporation.
“We have already shipped more than 30,000 units,” he said, adding, these can be used as standalone processors or co-processors (typically with an Intel Xeon), and can be used in supercomputers and servers.
Intel has begun shipping the processor, launched under its Knights Landing series, which is Intel’s first bootable host processor specifically designed for highly-parallel workloads, and the first to integrate both memory and fabric technologies.
The chip is a general purpose central processing unit (CPU) built on open standards, making software investments portable into the future.
The product family’s broad ecosystem support includes more than 50 original equipment manufacturers, independent software vendors and middleware partners.
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