Intel reveals: Knights Landing - next gen workstation CPU

Boasting at least 60 cores (and some rumors put the count as high as 72)

The chip is slated to have over eight billion transistors, as many as the GPU in Nvidia’s Titan X, and should be good for three teraflops of double-precision performance

The Knight’s Landing design also includes eight chunks of on-die memory that can deliver up to 400 gigabytes per second of bandwidth and support a maximum capacity of 16GB

These supplement DDR4 RAM, which offers 90GB/s of bandwidth, and Intel’s specifications show that Knight’s Landing can, at maximum, provide an incredible 400GB of RAM capacity (the 16GB with the chip, plus 384GB of DDR4)

Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/new-details-revealed-about-intels-upcoming-60-core-behemoth/#ixzz3VoULrCnK

2nd source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8217/intels-knights-landing-coprocessor-detailed

Anyone wants to test it against 5960X?

Actually is a Coprocessor. Its more a rival against Nvidia Tesla.

What if I choose to combine them both? :D

Dunno. Chuck Norris dies! :P

care to explain the difference here? What is a coprocessor?

Well I am not a hardware scientist, but coprocessor is a processor that is used to provide additional processing power to the main CPU.

It gives specific processing powers like more FP etc etc...

That means that it cannot run by itself and it needs a main CPU too. The same way Tesla works too.

Knight's Landing will be a competitor to Tesla I guess.

I think GPUs are in the same category.

ps: I searched more the web about this and wikipedia seems to be helpful: Coprocessor

@Coseniath: thanks. That made sense.

can this thing play minecraft is my question?