<i>That subsequently prompted some speculation that the chip would replace the now-banned Xeon Phi processors in the 100-petaflop upgrade to the Tianhe-2 supercomputer, which was supposed to be revealed in June at ISC 2016. Given that the latter never happened, it’s likely those FT-2000/64 chips were not deployed, or if they were, did not meet expectations.</i><p>Hmm..<p><i>Process：Manufacturing with 28nm process</i><p>And there you go.<p>Not sure if people are aware, but China doesn't have any sub-28nm (or 22nm?) fabs. TSMC has some of course, but the Taiwanese government is very, very strong on keeping those plants in Taiwan (although they are fine with TSMC etc building less advanced fabs in China).<p>Until they get a process shrink on this, I think.. well, I'd like to see some independent benchmarks.<p>Edit: The Samsung Exynos 5433 (4 cores on a 20nm process[1]) maxes out at 3.78 GFLOPS[2] on selected benchmarks. Call it 1 GLOP/core - I find it unlikely that this thing is going to get 500 GFLOPS with 64 cores, even with a higher power consumption.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/8718/the-samsung-galaxy-note-4-exynos-review" rel="nofollow">http://www.anandtech.com/show/8718/the-samsung-galaxy-note-4...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/8718/the-samsung-galaxy-note-4-exynos-review/4" rel="nofollow">http://www.anandtech.com/show/8718/the-samsung-galaxy-note-4...</a>