Intel today unveiled the new name and production schedule details for their Xeon family Many Integrated Cores Architecture (MIC) co-processor that was previously shown under the codename “Knight’s Corner” which is now known as the Xeon Phi. The new coprocessors are available in a PCIe form factor, taking advantage of the latest generation of Intel’s Xeon family processors and motherboards direct support of PCIe 3.0.

Last year Intel showcased a single pre-production Phi unit that was able to deliver just over 1 TeraFLOP double precision floating point performance. They really like this number, using the graphic below to demonstrate the difference between 2012 and their first TeraFLOP capable computer, in 1997.

The single connection, two slot wide PCIe card holds the 50+ core Phi processor and a minimum of 8 GB of GDDR5 memory. The MIC coprocessor is produced using Intel’s 22nm, 3-D tri-gate transistor technology. While the Phi was used in a new supercomputer that was ranked as the 149th fastest in the world today, production quantities of the co-processor won’t be available until sometime later this year.