The Knight’s Ferry 32-core server chip adds vector processing capabilities and delivers more than 500 gigaflops of performance. The chip’s cores run at 1.2GHz. It is the first in a new family of server chips called Knights, which the company describes as being based on a new “many integrated core” architecture.
The 32-core chip will be available in the second half of 2010, for development purposes.
The first commercial product will include more than 50 cores and be called Knights Corner. An Intel spokesman would not say when that chip will be available. However, the chip will be part of the Sandy Bridge chip architecture, manufactured using the 22-nanometer process, and those processors are due to reach laptops and servers in 2011.
