Intel’s 72-Core ‘Knight’s Landing’ Xeon Phi Supercomputer Chip Cleared For Takeoff.

For some context, for vector-based tasks at least it will soon be possible for a regular person to own in a single box more computing power than existed in the entire world in 1970.

Heck, it already is, and at least for a while it was possible for less than $200, at least for the previous generation.

Of course then you have to know what to do with it….