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...
Intel Xeon W? Now we're talking!
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...
Intel Xeon W? Now we're talking!