Only a flesh wound
Bad news for Nvidia as supercomputer maker Cray said that Intel's Knight's Landing is giving Nvidia a run for its money.
Cray's boss Peter Ungaro whose outfit makes supercomputers based around both Knight's Landing and Nvidia gear has hinted that Chipzilla's gear is gaining traction.
The second generation Xeon Phi product, codenamed Knight's Landing, comes as a stand-alone processor and another one which will be released as a co-processor later on. All this stands in the way of Nvidia's cunning plans in the market.
Ungaro, the company has a "substantial amount of business" that relies on both Intel's Knight's Landing Xeon Phi part as well as Nvidia Tesla P100. He says he has significant orders for both.
But, he added that orders for systems based on Knight's Landing actually exceed the orders for systems that use the Tesla P100. In other words, Knight's Landing is already cleaning Tesla's clock.
Motley Fool thinks that at the moment the market is big enough for both of them Nvidia has reported that its datacenter related sales were up 63 percent year-over-year. But we can expect Chipzilla to start getting more Chipzillish as it starts bumping into Nvidia's sales teams.
It might also start to get very interesting when ARM chips start making an impact.
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