Intel finally launched the highly anticipated “Knights Landing” (KNL) version of their Many Integrated Core (MIC) Xeon Phi processor at this years’ international supercomputing event (now called ISC High Performance), targeting High Performance Computing (HPC) and the white-hot market for training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). DNNs are used to power everything from the ads you see on Google to autonomous cars to natural language processing to image recognition. The announcement started a bit of a food fight: Intel claims that they can beat NVIDIA in Deep Learning by over 2x, to which NVIDIA responded that, no, actually their new accelerators beat Intel by, you guessed it, by over 2x.

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