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Good news for those of us who felt that Xeon Scalable was overpriced overkill:
https://www.servethehome.com/new-intel-xeon-w-processors-for-professional-workstations-announced/
The Xeon W line is the successor to Xeon E5-16xx. It uses the same socket as consumer high-end (LGA2066). Four channels of DDR4, 48 PCIe lanes, same microarchitecture as Xeon Scalable (Skylake with the new cache distribution and mesh network instead of the old ring bus).
The disappointment comes in the PCH. Instead of something as fancy as the C62x line, the C422 PCH is little more than a C236. It supports up to 24 PCIe lanes (up from 20 on C236), but is otherwise the same. Yes, that means two fewer SATA ports than Haswell-EP and, surprisingly, no 10GbE NIC. Onboard is still 1GbE (presumably with an i219 external PHY).
https://www.servethehome.com/new-intel-xeon-w-processors-for-professional-workstations-announced/
The Xeon W line is the successor to Xeon E5-16xx. It uses the same socket as consumer high-end (LGA2066). Four channels of DDR4, 48 PCIe lanes, same microarchitecture as Xeon Scalable (Skylake with the new cache distribution and mesh network instead of the old ring bus).
The disappointment comes in the PCH. Instead of something as fancy as the C62x line, the C422 PCH is little more than a C236. It supports up to 24 PCIe lanes (up from 20 on C236), but is otherwise the same. Yes, that means two fewer SATA ports than Haswell-EP and, surprisingly, no 10GbE NIC. Onboard is still 1GbE (presumably with an i219 external PHY).
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