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What kind of advantages would this have over a GPU?

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Intel Pits Monster 72 Core Xeon Phi Chip Against GPUs

I read up on that article to try to answer your question. This chip can be used as a "coprocessor", as the slide says, which means that it is not the primary CPU. In particular, it "will likely serve more as a co-processor to Xeon E5 chips as the primary CPU." It could be a primary CPU, but it is "designed to run scientific applications with their juiced up Atom cores and vector processors", as opposed to the latest video game.

With respect to your question now, the article says that "the chips are 'faster and more scalable than GPUs' for machine learning models in servers", and that the "Xeon Phi has been successfully used in supercomputing, and now Intel wants to challenge Nvidia's GPU by bringing the chip to machine learning."