14 DAY TRIAL // Xeon Phi is the brand that Intel uses for its collection of PCI Express compute accelerators, the type that goes against NVIDIA Tesla GPU compute cards. Intel intends to launch a few in 2014.
There are already plenty of Xeon Phi boards on the market, and in supercomputers. After all, there have been several updates to the series between the initial launch in November 2012 and the present time.
The next product launch will happen in 2014, probably in the first half of the year.
Intel will unveil Xeon Phi 51xx SKUs with up to 16 GB RAM (5 GT/s) and 60 cores, with 1.053 GHz clock, plus passive cooling for 225W TDPs. A denser card at 245W TDP will have 5.5 GT/s memory and active cooling (presumably).
There will be two Xeon Phi 31xx products too, of 12 GB RAM (5 GT/s), 57 cores at 1.1 GHz and 300W TDPs. One will have active cooling and the other passive.
The Top500 supercomputer list will show how well all these will perform from a marketing standpoint.