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rbanffy on June 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intel Announces Xeon Phi Co-Processors

Now, I'd love to see one with hardware-assisted transactional memory like the newest POWER machines. A standard HTM implementation for x64 ISA machines would be a huge leap forward.

spitfire on June 19, 2012 [–]

The future "Haswell" chips are going to have support for transactional memory.

No news on these guys though. Give it time. In a few years these things will be getting up to speed in features/RAS and such.

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