> and then at the end of the day we just ended up convincing everyone that they never wanted to go that route ever again. Hmm, why? Intel executed well with Ne

> and then at the end of the day we just ended up convincing everyone that they never wanted to go that route ever again. Hmm, why? Intel executed well with Nehalem while AMD stumbled, leaving HTX even more niche than it already was, or do you mean there was some fundamental (technical) problem with it? > These days Intel's putting Omnipath on-package for Xeon Phi and Skylake. Likely it's still a PCI-Express connection, but it doesn't count against the total available lanes for external cards. Assuming the parts with integrated omni-path use the same socket, some pins will be needed for the OPA connection, no? Presumably pins that were reserved for PCIe in the normal chips, I'd guess...