It's going to be interesting to see what the new AMD 'Rome' brings to the table when it gets into peoples hands.<p>upto 64 Cores/128 Threads and 128 PCI express lanes (that's on all of them irrespective of the core count) - 8 channel memory.<p>Given AMD's insanely aggressive pricing on the Zen 2 consumer line I'm expecting a proper knockdown drag out fight.
I'm having a hard time figuring out who would be buying this. Only thing I can think of is that the chip has some extra features not really advertised that the customer needed.
$5,500 doesn't matter in this context which is why the pricing is structured this way. This is destine for a server in a datacenter, the cost of the hardware is pretty much a blip in comparison to rackspace, power and networking costs.<p>This largely comes down to a problem of folks assuming that 'price' is correlated strongly with 'cost'. It's not and never has been.