ISC 2012 The name "Many Integrated Core" doesn't roll off the tongue – and even Intel doesn't know whether to pronoun MIC as "mick" or "mike" – so with the future "Knights Corner" x86 coprocessors intended to thwart the coprocessor plans of Nvidia and its Tesla family, Chipzilla is settling on the brand name of Xeon Phi to peddle its variation on the energy-efficient coprocessor theme.
The company rolled out the new brand at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany, while at the same time providing a little more guidance on the production schedule, and picking up an endorsement from supercomputer-maker Cray.
