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Intel has been selling hexa-channel DDR4 Xeons since 2015 to select customers. For users like myself constrained by memory bandwidth I would prefer that they p
by Sephr 9y ago
Intel has been selling hexa-channel DDR4 Xeons since 2015 to select customers.
For users like myself constrained by memory bandwidth I would prefer that they publicly started selling their Skylake-SP Purley platform. In some configurations they even include a 100Gbit/s photonic interconnect and an FPGA for Deep Learning acceleration.
I would gladly pay $2500-3500 for an 18-24 core Intel CPU with hexa-channel DDR4 and PCIe 4.0 (or simply more than 44 lanes of 3.0).
- emiliobumachar 9y agoOut of curiosity, why "to select customers" only? I'd suppose the feeling of exclusivity isn't much of a sales point to processor buyers. I supply is constrained, seems like demand could be similarly constrained by a price hike. Do they get better feedback from these select customers? Better acceptance of eventual defects without bad PR?
- jacquesm 9y ago> Out of curiosity, why "to select customers" only? To justify extreme price differences so the 'select customers' can credibly claim this expensive stuff gives them an edge their competitors will not be able to easily match. In an arms race arms that are supply constrained will fetch premium prices.
- StillBored 9y agoBut to the parent point, all the more reason to open it up, and charge an even higher premium when other people come online and start a bidding war.
- DaiPlusPlus 9y agoI wonder if the hardware at that scale isn't exactly stable - so to become a "select customer" comes with signing a gag-agreement not to publicly disclose stability problems - and I guess also requires the customer have suitably trained staff who can deal with any expected or unexpected problems - and software engineers who can write software that will fully utilise the processor's capabilities - much like how Sony took some PR flak for the PS3's Cell processor being difficult to program for given its atypical design.
- mtgx 9y agoAMD's Threadripper may be more to your liking then: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-threadripper-vega-pcie-lanes,34581.html http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-threadripper-vega-pcie-...
- redtuesday 9y agoNice, 64 PCIe 3.0 lanes for all Threadripper SKUs. That would be enough for 7 GPU's with 8x PCIe 3.0 (60 of the 64 are feeding PCIe and M.2 slots, 4 go to the chipset). Seems like it will be a nice CPU to use for machine learning. Other sites also report that it will support 2 TByte of RAM like the single socket Naples/Epyc, but LRDIMM and official/validated ECC support was not mentioned in the stream.