Xeon 6 SoC is out

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Ouch! At $900 and 110 W TDP for the lowest part, this iteration of Xeon D (with a stupid new naming) is NOT going to displace the old faithful Xeon D-1500 for NAS use.

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Starting at a minimum of 12 cores, (and guessing 24 threads), smaller labs / home installs may not need such. (Of course, smaller labs and home installs don’t need a $1,000 SoC either!)

I wish AMD would create a socket & CPU line with:

  • 48 PCIe lanes
  • >2 memory channels, perhaps 4
  • Of course ECC RAM pins
  • Integrated 2 channels of video, possibly another channel with pins that can be re-assigned
  • >4 SATA ports, possibly more from re-assigning PCIe lanes
  • CPUs with 4c/8t as the minimum, (for lower power designs). And up to 16c/32t for larger designs.

While the Ryzen Threadrippers met most of those, Threadrippers were never intended to be small servers.

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AMD gives you a choice between:

  • EPYC 4004 (i.e. ECC-certified desktop Ryzen), with video, 2 memory channels and 24 PCIe lanes;
  • EPYC 8004 Siena with 6 memory channels, 96 PCIe lanes, but no video—starting at 8 cores.

I can see that a “Xeon E5-class” CPU between these two would be nice for home labs, but I doubt we are enough of a market to justify this line.

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