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Right, that's similar to what I said, except I suggested that maybe it was a discrete component that does not replace the Xeon processor at all. After all, why get rid of the fastest scalar engine in the system and replace it with a slower one, if all you need is the additional accelerator? A stand-alone IP is cheaper and lower power, and good software can hide the latency of a discrete IP (just look at what has been accomplished via discrete graphics).

Intel will have Broadwell SoC out next year and I'm sure Intel would happily build a variant with anybody's custom accelerator block - as long as they've got sufficient scale.

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re: After all, why get rid of the fastest scalar engine in the system and replace it with a slower one, if all you need is the additional accelerator?

Because you don't need the fast processor if you have the accelerator and you'd really like to have everything on the same chip.