Cascade lake, intel discontinues some cpus xeon and low prices

In a sign of increasing pressure from EPYC in the server processor segment, Intel issued a notice that it will discontinue several Cascade Lake Xeon models along with the downgrade of other models.

Intel Cascade Lake Xeon M-Series are discontinued

Intel built the M-series models with the same silicon as the standard Xeon processors, but with a sharp $ 3, 000 price increase over standard chips. In return, customers got a memory capacity of up to 2TB per chip, a significant increase over the 1TB memory support of standard models. This still didn't match the maximum 4TB capacity of AMD's EPYC Rome processors, which is free.

	Memory Support	Previous price	Actual Price
Cascade Lake Xeon	1TB	-	-
M-Series (Medium Memory Support)	2 TB	$ 3, 003	Discontinued
L-Series (Large Memory Support)	4.5 TB	$ 7, 897	$ 3, 003

An Intel representative said these price cuts are the result of customer reaction, and the company will now offer its L-series models, which support 4.5TB capacity, at the same prices as M-models. that are no longer manufactured.

This amounts to a large price cut for Xeon customers who require more memory capacity or who are considering the adoption of high-capacity Optane DIMMs. Once again, the L series models are built with the same silicon as the standard Xeon models, but before the change, customers had to pay an additional $ 7, 897 to upgrade to the L series models that support up to 4, 5TB of memory capacity (since Optane DIMMS are used).

Now they only have to shell out an extra $ 3, 003 per chip.

Intel's Optane DC Persistent Memory DIMMs are also on the scene. Absorption of these modules is generally thought to be slow, largely because not all workloads benefit from new technology that uses persistent storage memory instead of DRAM. For workloads that do benefit, significant re-coding is required to optimize applications to extract the maximum capabilities of the new technology, not to mention validation costs. This equates to a large initial investment to be made to adopt Optane DC and many companies are still a little reluctant to make that investment, at the moment.

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Each Rome processor supports up to 4TB of memory per socket (two DIMMs per channel) at no additional charge. This is a great advantage that AMD has right now. It certainly makes it difficult for companies to pay an additional $ 3, 003 over Intel's already higher price than AMD's and still fall short to match EPYC's memory capacity.

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