You seem to know more about it than I do. If what you say is true then these CPU's will be a raging success. That will be good for AMD as it looks like their Radeon brand just committed sepiku.

Once again its the same story with Radeon. I have not liked AMD in a very long time. I have never liked them as much as i do currently, because the products theyre putting out now are finally good designs. The current Vega GPU is great, but they havent advertized it properly at all. Its basically a GP100 in terms of FP32 and FP16, which is great for machine learning and graphics. MI25 will compete directly with some Pascal chips, probably at a fraction of the $10,000 price of a P100. The Vega FE is nice and will make for a good development platform for their really serious workstation cards, as well as the MI25 which uses the same GPU. Its an intro to their ecosystem basically, and will allow people to figure out how to optimize for it. Intel did the same thing with Knights Landing. https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/tower/5038/SYS-5038K-I.cfm What no one is mentioning about Vega are its really awesome features for huge deployments, like an AI focused supercomputer. 49bit virtual addressing and 48bit physical, like P100 and V100, Infinity Fabric will allow it to talk to AMD CPUs and built in NVMe on the GPU. HBCC is another huge feature thats getting almost no discussion. AMD has got Intel beat in a lot of ways right now, especially with how they have arranged their CPU scalability. A lot of people posting probably dont realize the kind of machines that Epyc and Vega are really going to be used in, which will be everything from desktop workstations, to huge NUMA machines, racks of servers and possibly massive supercomputers. If Epyc's volume pricing significantly beats Skylake-SP(based on the numbers ive seen with estimates of Skylake Platinum going up to $10,000 and the top Epyc being like $4,000), and you need 5,000 or 10,000 CPUs for a scale out supercomputer, what would you pick? Supermicro, Dell and some other big names are already producing new AMD boards and servers. https://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/AMD_SP3.cfm If AMD can market themselves right, they can take huge market share from Intel. Nvidia is further ahead of AMD than Intel, but they dont make x86 CPUs. Meanwhile Intel is trying to make everything, and theyre faltering big time.

What AMD did with Ryzen is called success after about 10+ years of losing the CPU battle against Intel. AMD have forced the sleeping giant Intel to make Skylake-X 8 core CPUs in a few months time as an answer to strong Ryzen threat. Now AMD is going forward with the Ryzen PRO processors for the business and enterprise market, good job AMD, finally managed to shake up Intel. I wish that in the GPU segment AMD/ATI could shake up Nvidia as well.

What AMD did with Ryzen is called success after about 10+ years of losing the CPU battle against Intel. AMD have forced the sleeping giant Intel to make Skylake-X 8 core CPUs in a few months time as an answer to strong Ryzen threat. Now AMD is going forward with the Ryzen PRO processors for the business and enterprise market, good job AMD, finally managed to shake up Intel. I wish that in the GPU segment AMD/ATI could shake up Nvidia as well.

Thing with Nvidia though is they have been pushing along and increasing performance substantially each generation. Intel was doing nothing like that. This is whay AMD caught Intel. Nvidia will be a totally different beast.

Ryzen Pro CPUs will have the memory encryption and more virtualization extensions for hardware root of trust like Epyc. I assume they also fully support ECC RAM. They are also very specifically binned from the highest yield wafers, so they will likely be low leakage, run cooler and have less electromigration aging issues. Can also assume that theyll be using solder in their packaging like they did on Ryzen. https://www.pcper.com/news/Processors/Delidded-Ryzen-7-1700-Confirms-AMD-Using-Solder-IHS-Ryzen-Processors Its not just a warranty. I dont think that Intel has a competing product with memory encryption in any of their product lineups. They certainly dont have it in the direct competitor for Ryzen Pro, which is the E3 Xeon. And even Intels partial memory protection doesnt work. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/01/sgx_secure_until_you_look_at_the_detail/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/07/eggheads_slip_a_note_under_intels_door_sgx_can_leak_crypto_keys/ The encrypted memory is a huge deal for NVDIMMs. Thats a key differentiator from Intel CPUs and something typically found in SPARC mainframes that cost millions.

+1 Exactly this ^ "A superset to the standard Ryzen chips, the PRO chips have the same feature set as other Ryzen devices, but also offer enhanced security, 24 months availability, a longer warranty and promise to feature better chip quality."