1. It's estimated to come out a year later than AMD's Radeon part which will boast similar double-precision floating point performance. Both could be delayed, t

1. It's estimated to come out a year later than AMD's Radeon part which will boast similar double-precision floating point performance. Both could be delayed, though if Southern Islands comes out on time & Knights Corner gets delayed, by the time KC sees the light of day AMD or nVidia might have another part out by then that will offer even higher DPFP performance. 2. I am not sold that modeling the cores after x86/SMP means special care won't be needed to feed the Intel MIC architecture properly. I'd like to see some real world numbers on purchasable hardware.