well, i think its a bit more about market segments and interoperability than anything else. currently overall systems from ibm, and, and intel are fundamentally

well, i think its a bit more about market segments and interoperability than anything else. currently overall systems from ibm, and, and intel are fundamentally incompatible. the PCI-E bus that knights landing hangs off of is a qualitatively different thing than the kinds of memory-coherent inter-cpu busses that are being addressed with the CAPI proposal. Intel has their own proprietary QPI. AMD has a quasi-open hyper transport (still?). If this is done properly it means you could make generic motherboards, and generic memory controllers, and all sorts of different accelerators and mix and match them from various vendors. So its no surprise that the smaller players in the market and trying to gang together and the larger player is trying to keep lock-in. Knights Landing as it stands would already integrate in systems better if it were using an inter-cpu bus than a peripheral bus as well as GPUs, FPGAs, and certainly RDMA/memory window systems like Mellanox. Inherent distrust of standards aside, this could be a great win for people putting together bespoke systems in interesting configurations (i.e. Google), I don't think there is any downside in theory for Intel except more competition.