You're going to see fewer and fewer comparisons to GPUs, since Intel has finally figured out that users don't want to cram all their data into a PCIe lane. The

You're going to see fewer and fewer comparisons to GPUs, since Intel has finally figured out that users don't want to cram all their data into a PCIe lane. The current generation of KNL is not really a coprocessor -- it's self-hosted, so instead of a crapload of dual-socket Xeon processors with MIC cards hanging off them, you have a crapload of single-socket KNL processors, on which users can run x86 code directly. nVIDIA is still superior, in my eyes, but they're going to need to get nvlink figured out and deployed, because Intel has basically started deploying accelerator cards with no CPU layer needed -- and no recompile, either.