Is Intel losing it?
Were corporate IT purchasers buying these $2000+ MP-enabled processors ever confused about the E5/E7 branding?
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/248456-intel-will-rebrand-xeons-preps-gold-platinum-workstation-processors
its not about it purchasers its about their bosses
>>60113928
They don't want to get sued by shareholders.
>>60113928
>rebranding enterprise hardware because consumer-tier marketing
Shit, anyone remember when this happened to HP-UX 11? Yeah, this is going to go about as well.
>>60113943
I don't think CIOs at large firms check in on the specs of the servers their underlings decide to purchase.
>>60114016
"Sir, we (too lazy too fix software) will take forever to rewrite shit, and lose money in the meantime but if we get more performance with faster hardware, therefore faster money yada yada"
"Sounds good, let's do it"
I don't know if this actually happens, but who knows how stupid people are these days.
>yfw Core Silver and Core Bronze
>>60114513
And in AMD
>core wood
>later turns to core coal
http://fortune.com/2015/11/15/intel-super-7/
Intel's been selling Skylake-SP for a few months
>>60114544
Only to a limited amount of customers, according to Patrick Kennedy you can expect availability in Q3
>>60114542
That wasn't even funny, benchmark spammer.
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