The problem with Intel is that they are too worried about competing with themselves. Every bit of their server pricing is designed to prevent people from findi

The problem with Intel is that they are too worried about competing with themselves. Every bit of their server pricing is designed to prevent people from finding a "bargain". That works really well when you're only competing with yourself, but falls down when outside competition finally arrives. Right now, the AMD Epyc is the only game in town in terms of I/O bandwidth if you want to build a single-socket box that can serve 200Gb/s from NVME to the network. Part of this is because Intel has categorized heavy IO as something where they want to force you to multi-socket, so they limit the PCIe lanes to 48 lanes per socket (which is enough for only about 150Gb/s). So, I'm really looking forward to seeing where this chip falls in their pricing structure, and whether or not it has more than 48 lanes of PCIe wired out of the chip.