MP 7,1 No More M Xeons?

[DPUser]

Intel Cuts 2nd Gen 'Extended Memory' Xeon Scalable Prices

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[tsialex]

Intel Cuts 2nd Gen 'Extended Memory' Xeon Scalable Prices

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No changes at all for W Xeons.

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It is worth noting that the M series does still live on in the Xeon W family. The Xeon W-3275 for example supports 1 TB of DRAM, while the W-3275M supports 2TB. There is no W-3275L model, however I would hope there to be one if Intel decided to start supporting Optane on workstation processors as it has promised in the past.​

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[deconstruct60]

Intel Cuts 2nd Gen 'Extended Memory' Xeon Scalable Prices

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The over 1.5TB Xeon SPs probably mean more for increased Optane DIMMs sales than regular RAM DIMM sales. There are no Optane DIMMs in the Xeon W space.

Bluntly, it was a greedy, seriously bozo move to impede Optane DIMM sales before this adjustment and price cut. It was one of the primarily leverage points they had last year ( and well into 2020). Why slowing that down in 2019 was just deep denial of where they were actually at tactically. Somebody goosing a couple of quarter bonuses over real impact for the overall company long term. (some group of folks or individual sold out the company long term prospects for their own pockets. ).


That said .... Depends upon how badly Threadripper 3 claws into the market in workstation space. Threadripper 3 kneecapped itself on memory also under 1TB. And other Workstation vendors haven't solely committed to the 28M 26M for their workstation. (so don't have to pay the tax).

The question should be whether Apple breaks or Intel breaks first on those. ( If Intel can get Apple to sell more than a few ... Intel likely isn't going to give here along most possible outcome paths. )