When are major manufacturers going to release workstations based on AMD products? Are Intel’s non-compete distribution agreements that watertight?
I buy four to six workstations every three or so years for my organization, and I’m really underwhelmed by Intel XEON. If I could buy a Threadripper from HP, Dell or Lenovo I would do so gladly.
I don’t have time to go the DIY route in the enterprise world, but AMD seems happy with occupying just that tiny DIY market segment.
Honestly, I have to see the pricing on the 12 and 16 core parts, and see the latency benchmarks. If the latency is still unsolved, I may have to wait untl Zen 3 Threadripper if they do a silicon interposer and combine the IOD and CCD for the low core count Pro parts.
If it’s inflated by the “pro market tax”, I might not be so quick to get onboard.
If these are going to be Zen2 parts, I am no so interested. What Will be of interest is the layout of the new boards and if they are to support Zen3 TRs
IIRC, it is one DIMM per channel, to enable differentiation between EPYC SKUs, so that would suggest there is a higher chance that the limit per slot will not be so draconian.
TRX40 having only 4 slots in 16/8/16/8 configurations (or worse! - looking at you, TaiChii!) was also a huge disincentive.