> I was wondering how radically this architecture differs from more conventional x86 cores The big difference besides memory and organisation is that the KNL c

> I was wondering how radically this architecture differs from more conventional x86 cores The big difference besides memory and organisation is that the KNL cores are beefed-up Silvermont cores (the new Atom), which is an out of order core and pretty much what you would expect of a modern x86 architecture. The Knight's Corner cores were custom cores, somewhere between barrel and vector processors. The Knight's Landing should be even more general-purpose than the old Xeon Phi's and easier to program for.