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Re:China Tops U.S. in Supercomputers by bhouston on Monday June 20, 2016 @08:30AM (#11937516)
So what is the cost of these CPUs? Could then be used in desktops or more importantly various cloud services (AWS, Google, Microsoft)? What OS do these run?

Is there plans to commercialize these chips? We need accessible low cost ultra-high core count chips widely available. I feel that Intel and AMD have been under performing in this area (growing core count) for the last decade. And Intel has kept the price of CPUs exceptionally high for the last decade as well.

If low cost ultra-high performance chips from China under cut Intel's excessively priced Xeons (+$3K per CPU), it really could change things. If these start to spread, I wouldn't be surprised if Intel tried to prevent the spread of these CPUs outside of China via trade barriers.

Re:China Tops U.S. in Supercomputers by imtringued on Monday June 20, 2016 @12:44PM (#11939199)
Ultra-high performance and low cost don't belong in the same sentence. Even with intel if you want bang for buck you're better off buying 12 core CPUs than the 18 core ones.