This means it can be used for artificial intelligence (AI) and deep brain learning. Intel claims the bootable Xeon Phi scales to any number of processors using Intel's scalable-system framework (SSF) with integrated on-chip fabric, Omni-Path fiber and silicon photonics.

Speed was bumped to 1.5-GHz for high-performance computing (HPC) orchestration while maintaining its low-power energy budget compared with GPU-based and other competing high-speed multicore arrays tied to PCIe.

Intel is flogging the Xeon Phi is the world's first CPU with integrated fabric in-package. Because it is now bootable by itself, has integrated in-package memory and can run on systems as small as developer workstations starting at $5k.

Intel's bootable Xeon Phi fits into its scalable system framework (SSF) which connects with omni-path fiber driven by silicon photonics, to perform high-performance computing (HPC) tasks, especially Deep Learning algorithms .

Intel cliams Xeon Phi arrays of were 1.38 times faster than GPUs compared with a single Intel Xeon Phi processor with 87 percent efficiency compared to 32 Nvidia Tesla K20 GPUs with 62 percent efficiency.