Intel is one of the pioneers in the server market and in equipment that requires a large workload. Especially when it comes to artificial intelligence and neural networks. To further increase the computing capabilities of these teams. So, Intel is developing the new Intel Xeon Phi ” Knights Mill ” family with up to 72 cores.
Intel is developing the new Intel Xeon Phi ” Knights Mill ” family with up to 72 cores and AVX-512 instructions
In total there will be three new processors based on Intel Xeon Phi ‘Knights Mill’. That has been known thanks to the Intel ARK database. The three new SKUs can have between 64 and 72 cores with a TDP of 320W.
The Xeon Phi ‘Knights Mill’ processors are a new iteration of the old ‘Knights Landing’ family. Also, that comes with a change in silicon to house the additional AVX-512 instructions. As far as we can tell, these parts will only be available as socketable hosts and not as PCIe cards.
The successor of Knights Landing (KNL) is Knights Mill (KNM). That was detailed in Hot Chips. For the most part, the KNL and KNM CPUs would be almost identical in the number of cores, frequencies, 36 PCIe 3.0 tracks, 16GB of high bandwidth MCDRAM memory and six DRAM channels. But KNM offers a small design adjustment for allowing AVX-512 instructions.
The big difference here is that the Intel Xeon Phi Knights Mill offers only half the performance of double precision that Knights Landing, but doubles the performance in simple precision and up to four times in variable precision.
Intel Xeon Phi (Knights Mill) |
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| Cores | Base Clock | Turbo | L2 | TDP | DRAM | Temperatures | |
| 7295 | 72/288 | 1.50 GHz | 1.60 GHz | 36 MB | 320W | DDR4-2400 | 77ºC |
| 7285 | 68/272 | 1.30 GHz | 1.40 GHz | 34 MB | 250W | DDR4-2400 | 72ºC |
| 7235 | 64/256 | 1.30 GHz | 1.40 GHz | 32 MB | 250W | DDR4-2133 | 72ºC |
As we can see, these processors do not require large clock speeds, which is compensated by the immense number of cores and threads that it has.
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