Chinese Chipmaker Unveils 64-Core ARM Processor

Re:Chinese Chipmaker Unveils 64-Core ARM Processor by nxjfxgkkt on Friday August 26, 2016 @09:56AM (#12366248)

At 500 gigaflops, I would buy these in a heartbeat if they were offered for sale to the public. While that's only half the performance of a xeon phi, this is a traditional CPU which makes programming it much more straightforward. Not to mention that the cost would be significantly less.

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Re:Chinese Chipmaker Unveils 64-Core ARM Processor by mrb on Friday August 26, 2016 @10:13AM (#12366380)

512 single precision GFLOPS is not half, but 1/10th the performance of a Xeon Phi (Xeon Phi 7210 is 5325 single precision GFLOPS).

However perhaps this processor beats the Xeon Phi 7210 in perf/price as the latter is horrendously priced at $2438 (list price) as well as perf/watt.

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Re:Chinese Chipmaker Unveils 64-Core ARM Processor by snaky on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:57AM (#12367104)

Do you think this 64-core beast would be priced at less than $243?

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Re:Chinese Chipmaker Unveils 64-Core ARM Processor by mrb on Friday August 26, 2016 @01:40PM (#12367889)

Probably not, but maybe. This chinese processor is hardly a beast. It is comparable (±20%) in raw GFLOPS to a ~$200 Intel skylake processor: 4-core 3.3GHz i7-6700K is rated 422 single precision GFLOPS.

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Re:Chinese Chipmaker Unveils 64-Core ARM Processor by petra on Friday August 26, 2016 @06:12PM (#12369667)

Die size is 640mm2, die cost is ~$42(asumming TSMC's yields, chinese fabs have much lower yields) - so at volume manufacturing cost(including test and package) is surely less than $100 ,closer to $60-70.

And in large enough volume, assuming 50% gross margins, sure it could be cheaper.

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Re:Chinese Chipmaker Unveils 64-Core ARM Processor by imtringued on Friday August 26, 2016 @10:09AM (#12366346)

Nowadays Xeon Phis are traditional CPUs.

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Re:Chinese Chipmaker Unveils 64-Core ARM Processor by milcron on Friday August 26, 2016 @02:41PM (#12368330)

This is true! New with the Knights Landing generation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi#Knights_Landing

    available in two forms, as a coprocessor or a host processor

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Re:Chinese Chipmaker Unveils 64-Core ARM Processor by ww520 on Friday August 26, 2016 @12:01PM (#12367128)

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these. A personal super-computer. God, I can't believe the only thing that comes to mine about Slashdot is the Beowulf cluster.

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Re:Chinese Chipmaker Unveils 64-Core ARM Processor by anonbanker on Friday August 26, 2016 @02:00PM (#12368031)

Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, covered in hot grits? FP? CowboyNeal? GNAA?

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Re:Chinese Chipmaker Unveils 64-Core ARM Processor by sliken on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:51PM (#12370878)

Er, how is a phi not like a traditional CPU? It runs linux, you can use python, c, perl, go, rust, whatever. It's basically an x86 with more cores and a larger vector unit.

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