Rejecting the time of ambition in the segment of discrete graphics cards with Larrabee project , Intel is planning to seriously compete with NVIDIA Tesla accelerators in computing segment. It was reported that the generation Xeon Phi Knights Corner with a number of cores, more than 60 pieces can compete on speed with Tesla K20 based on Kepler (GK110).
First Xeon Phi recipients paid for each accelerator as little as $ 400. Supercomputer, assembled on TACC, will include at least 6500 accelerators Xeon Phi.
Intel representatives declined to comment on the publication, recalling that the official announcement of Xeon Phi products, designed for retail, will be held before the end of this year.