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Knights Landing - Microarchitectures - Intel
| Edit Values | |
| Knights Landing µarch | |
| General Info | |
| Arch Type | CPU |
| Designer | Intel |
| Manufacturer | Intel |
| Process | 14 nm |
| Pipeline | |
| Type | Superscalar |
| OoOE | Yes |
| Speculative | Yes |
| Reg Renaming | Yes |
| Instructions | |
| ISA | x86-16, x86-32, x86-64 |
| Succession | |
| Contemporary | |
| Knights Mill | |
Knights Landing (KNL) is the successor to Knights Corner, a 14 nm many-core microarchitecture designed by Intel for high performance computing.
Contents
Process Technology
- See also: Broadwell § Process Technology and 14 nm lithography process
Knights Landing is fabricated on Intel's 14 nm process.
Architecture
Key changes from Knights Corner
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New instructions
Knights Landing introduced a number of new instructions:
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AVX-512, specifically:
Die
Die shot of Intel's Xeon Phi, Knights Landing.
- 14 nm process
- 682.6 mm² die size
- 76 CPU cores (sold with maximum 72 enabled cores)
- 7,100,000,000 transistors
Facts about "Knights Landing - Microarchitectures - Intel"
| codename | Knights Landing + |
| designer | Intel + |
| full page name | intel/microarchitectures/knights landing + |
| instance of | microarchitecture + |
| instruction set architecture | x86-16 +, x86-32 + and x86-64 + |
| manufacturer | Intel + |
| microarchitecture type | CPU + |
| name | Knights Landing + |
| process | 14 nm (0.014 μm, 1.4e-5 mm) + |