Full fledged? They are basically just scaled down P54C (P5 architecture from 1993) cores that have upgraded functional units, and you have 57 to 61 one them. Fl

Full fledged? They are basically just scaled down P54C (P5 architecture from 1993) cores that have upgraded functional units, and you have 57 to 61 one them. Flexible, maybe, but not as generally useful unless you are explicitly writing code for it. A better buy would be an AMD APU, which for ~150-200 watts (compared to the 225-300 for the Phi, which requires a ~130W CPU to operate) can do roughly the same processing work with a little less onboard memory.