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Re:Intel Xeon processor with FPGA now shipping by semi-extrinsic on Friday May 25, 2018 @01:56AM (#17150965)
My personal tinfoil hat take is that Xeon Phi was made to make China waste top dollar on their supercomputers going with a less useful accelerator made by a US company.
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Re:Intel Xeon processor with FPGA now shipping by ksec on Friday May 25, 2018 @04:46AM (#17151725)
By wasting millions of dollar and literally gave the Phi for free to China, which is part of the Intel CPU deal?

The answer is rather simple. Xeon Phi wasn't as good as the GPU counterpart.

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Re:Intel Xeon processor with FPGA now shipping by exikyut on Friday May 25, 2018 @04:41AM (#17151702)
Once China figured that out, the way they'd implement not falling for the same trick twice is simply never using US tech again. Which would limit other opportunities.

It's also at least plausible that they'd probably have people trained to think like Americans who might think of the same thing in advance.

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Re:Intel Xeon processor with FPGA now shipping by ropeadopepope on Friday May 25, 2018 @09:58AM (#17153734)
Not if you believe Tom Forsyth

http://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BWhy%20d...

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Re:Intel Xeon processor with FPGA now shipping by netheril96 on Friday May 25, 2018 @12:43PM (#17155432)
Yes US government has forbidden the export of Xeon and Xeon Phi to China's supercomputing centers. It prompted the construction of Sunway TaihuLight, which uses Chinese own CPUs.
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