Intel officially issued a product change notice on July 23. 8 accelerated card products including Xeon Phi 7210, 7210F, 7230, 7230F, 7250, 7250F, 7290 and 7290F (officially called fusion processor) announced decommissioning On August 31, the final order will be accepted, and the supply will be suspended from July 19 next year.
The Xeon Phi 7200 series, codenamed Knights Landing (KNL), is shipping for high-performance computing platforms. In August last year, Intel quietly cut off three Xeon Phi 7200 accelerator cards in the PCI-E expansion card style. The LGA3647-1 package processor style version.
but, The Xeon Phi 72x5, code-named Knights Mills, is unaffected and continues to be available to the market. The 72x5 series includes 7235/7285/7295, based on 14nm process, Atom Silvermont architecture, up to 72 cores and 288 threads 320W.
A long time ago, Intel planned Knights Hills after Knights Mills, but it has been officially cancelled.
Simultaneously, With the continuous extension of the 10nm process, Intel expects that in the future for a long time, it will not come up with a powerful Xeon Phi acceleration card new product at the high performance level. In this field, NVIDIA's Volta has in fact become the flagship.
It is worth mentioning that due to the policy relationship, China's supercomputer cannot purchase Xeon Phi after 2015, but fortunately, the self-developed domestic accelerator Matrix-2000 has been used in Tianhe 2/Tianhe 2A, and the technical indicators are already comparable.
In addition, Intel recruited Jim Keller, Raja Koduri and others to develop new high-performance computing platforms, GPU products, etc., and may also be looking for successors for Xeon Phi, which is 'unfortunately fortunate'.
