Intel 50-core Knights Corner promises 1 teraFLOPS

Intel demonstrated Knights Corner, an upcoming 22nm "compute accelerator" that promises the deliver a double precision floating point performance of 1 teraFLOPS. The chip will be Intel's first commercially available many integrated cores (MIC) architecture product, it features 50 cores and will compete with GPUs like NVIDIA's Tesla. The launch date of this Larrabee on steroids is still unknown.

Knights Corner, the first commercial Intel MIC architecture product, will be manufactured using Intel