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Because they can charge at least 4x the prices.

• rbanffy 8y ago
  If you get 4 times the throughput for 4 times the price, but can get away with single socket instead of 4 socket at half the energy, space and cooling budget of the similar 4 socket solution, it's still an impressive gain. Processor is a relatively small part of the TCO of a server. As of late, memory and storage have been as impactful in the total upfront cost as processors used to be, if not more, and space and cooling dominate the ongoing costs.
  • ianai 8y ago
    Agreed. I wonder just how stymied tech has been by memory costs and tech. Recent years have seen an increase in cores but not much in ram. We should be talking about persistent storage at ram speeds or closer fractions of terabytes of ram available for workstations.