Intel released the first-generation Xeon Phi product, code-named Knights Corner, in 2011. This product line exists in the form of accelerators in the Intel product line, and most of the products are in the form of PCI-E accelerator cards. However, Intel later introduced many-core processors code-named Knight Landing and Knight Mill with LGA 3467 sockets. However, last year, Intel announced that Xeon Phi 7210, 7230 and other products codenamed Knight Landing were included in the production suspension plan, and shipments will be officially stopped on July 19 this year. According to Anandtech' report, this week, Intel announced that the Xeon Phi processor codenamed Knight Mill has launched a discontinuation program, and customers interested in these products should submit their orders by August 9, 2019 as soon as possible, and will stop shipping on July 31, 2020.
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Xeon Phi is An accelerator card introduced by Intel for the high-performance computing market, and graphics and computing acceleration cards are increasingly favored in these areas after high-performance computing and supercomputers enter the heterogeneous era. The Intel Xeon Phi Accelerator card inherits the former Larabee project, although intel canceled the project in 2010. However, the project was later restarted through the Xeon Phi project, and has been launched for 4 generations so far (Knight Hill has never been released).
Now Intel will launch its own discrete graphics product Xe in 2020, in the recent revelations that its performance is also very powerful, the First Billion Times Supercomputer in the United States will also use Xe as an acceleration card, and Intel also has altera this FPGA product line, so from this point of view, the Xeon Phi that is aimed at high performance even if the market to open a shutdown plan is also logical The latest generation of Knight Mill products has also officially announced Xeon The Phi product line came to an end.