Workstation users. CAD, raytracing, and video editing people need as much CPU horsepower as they can get, and quad-channel RAM is pretty nice too. ("preview"

Workstation users. CAD, raytracing, and video editing people need as much CPU horsepower as they can get, and quad-channel RAM is pretty nice too. ("preview" rendering is done with GPU acceleration - but final encodes are still done on CPU for quality reasons) Small-business servers, databases, that kind of stuff too. We'll see where they go with this - but I would caution enthusiasts to tamp down their expectations a little bit because this is not necessarily going to be an ideal product for gaming. I would not be surprised to see lower clocks to keep TDP under control, and some fairly high price tags to go along with these chips. I'm imagining this as being more of a competitor to the high-end Xeons, with 3.5 GHz boost clocks and 3 GHz base clocks and a $2000 price tag. It would still be a screaming great deal at that price. In comparison Intel wants $1700+ for most of the high-core-count Xeons, and you're getting fewer cores and lower clocks.