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The MIC architecture is intended to make it possible to scale across more than 50 Intel processor cores on a single chip. According to Intel, each core is smaller and more energy-efficient and offers much higher overall performance with lower single-thread performance.
This is intended to make computing performance of 1 teraflop possible and optimize parallel simulation processes from HPC segments such as oil exploration, financial analyses and climate simulations.
