AMD Epyc Rome CPUs hold almost 40 billion transistors per chip

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Engineering marvel.
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only $8000? I'll take 2.
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Astyanax:

only $8000? I'll take 2.
You say that like $8000 is a lot of money for such a CPU. You'll spend over $10k for an Intel CPU with less than half the core count.
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schmidtbag:

You say that like $8000 is a lot of money for such a CPU. You'll spend over $10k for an Intel CPU with less than half the core count.
Yeah dude.. $8k or $10k.. Just a drop in the bucket man. Chump change.
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Sturmx:

Yeah dude.. $8k or $10k.. Just a drop in the bucket man. Chump change.
It is when you're talking enterprise hardware.
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