Published On: June 4, 2023

Photo by Cristiano Firmani on Unsplash In 2010, Intel launched a new architecture-based solution for the high-end workstations. Codenamed Intel Xeon Phi Knights Ferry. It was a co-processor that would allow faster processing and training due to the massively parallel thread and memory level optimization with the help of multiple cores sharing high-end channels and memory. The technology node used was 45nm. Over the next few years, Intel iterated on the design and launched Knights Corner with 22nm, followed by Knights Landing with 14nm. Knights Landing was a breakthrough architecture, allowing operating systems and applications to run on the architecture itself and eliminating the need to off-load and train. On top of this, the rich set of system and software-level architecture support from Intel and the Open Source community made […]