Intel announces the end of production of Xeon Phi 7200 'Knights Landing' processor for use in supercomputers and servers

The policy that the shipment of Xeon Phi 7200 series, code name "Knights Landing" of processors which Intel has continued to provide as a high performance computing (HPC) application use including supercomputer , will be unveiled in 2019 is clear it was done.

Intel Begins EOL Plan for Xeon Phi 7200-Series 'Knights Landing' Host Processors
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13111/intel-begins-eol-plan-for-xeon-phi-7200-series-knights-landing

On July 23, 2018 Intel announced plans to close the production of Xeon Phi 7210/7210 F, 7230/7230 F, 7250/7250 F, 7290/7290 F processors. The orders for these products will be continued until August 31, 2018 and the final shipment is scheduled for July 19, 2019.

The Xeon Phi 7200 series is the second generation of Xeon Phi products, released in June 2016. Although it was a product with a process rule of 14 nm with high processing capacity of 6 TFLOPS or more in single precision and 3 TFLOPS or more in double precision, demand is mainly necessarily large because it is targeted for supercomputer There are no circumstances that have come.

As the reason for the end of production Intel explained that "the market demand of the product has been transferred to other Intel products", but in fact the Xeon Phi 7200 series processor of the LGA 3647-1 form factor is in the technical computing field But it seems that it was not supported much. In August 2017, there was also an event that the shipment stop of the coprocessor product "Xeon Phi Coprocessor 7200" equipped with this processor was announced before the product release date.

Intel to not ship the 68-core "Xeon Phi Coprocessor 7200" series of PCIe connection - PC Watch
https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1077996.html

Although it was announced that the Xeon Phi 7200 series for HPC was abolished this time, on the other hand, the sale of the Xeon Phi 7235/7285/7295 "Knights Mill" processor optimized for the deep learning application was continued It is said that. However, given the discontinuation of the 3rd generation Xeon Phi "Knights Hill" and the problem that the company has 10 nm process technology, Intel has not launched a competitive processor for HPC applications, said the technology media " AnandTech "is analyzing.