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It doesn't really look bad to me... market segmentation isn't all about the silicon but the support and quality assurance. It seems like they want maximum contr
by smolder 6y ago
It doesn't really look bad to me... market segmentation isn't all about the silicon but the support and quality assurance. It seems like they want maximum control over quality for the big-spending money-making customers, which makes a lot of sense.
What I'm surprised about is that they're branding this "Threadripper Pro" instead of branding it as a high end Epyc workstation chip. Threadripper is a watered down Epyc chip to start with, and all they've done here is raise base clocks, lower boost, and turn on the additional IO that Epyc already had which was disabled in TR.
- kinghajj 6y agoMy guess would be that they don't want to provide the same level of support/warranties for using these Threadripper Pro chips as mission-critical servers. Probably the expected lifetime is shorter due to increased voltage/thermals as a result of the higher clock frequencies.
- pdimitar 6y agoThat's pretty fascinating take (and I never thought of it as a possibility). Are you saying that these chips might last only like 2-3 years and one day just burn off on boot, even if cooled the best way possible?