I am completely not surprised by this move, HBM2 solves a major issue for quite a few applications that live and die on high speed memory and assuming sapphire

I am completely not surprised by this move, HBM2 solves a major issue for quite a few applications that live and die on high speed memory and assuming sapphire rapids has enough ports to make use of it optimally will make these an absolute beast. I guess I'm only surprised AMD didn't do this first as they have more experience with HBM2 on their GPUs. Then again they might have and never made it a public SKU.