By: Wes Felter (wmf.delete@this.felter.org), October 12, 2018 1:42 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
AM (myname4rwt.delete@this.jee-male.com) on October 12, 2018 4:48 am wrote:
> Besides, the whole assumption that Intel went out of its way and made a custom part for
> Cloudflare tuned to suit their workloads is way too fishy to consider it seriously
Intel is doing dozens of "custom" bins for various customers; do you think they're all fishy or just this one? Especially in this case, CloudFlare is getting a lower frequency and higher TDP so effectively it's a "worse" chip than standard bins and it should be easy for Intel to provide.
> Besides, the whole assumption that Intel went out of its way and made a custom part for
> Cloudflare tuned to suit their workloads is way too fishy to consider it seriously
Intel is doing dozens of "custom" bins for various customers; do you think they're all fishy or just this one? Especially in this case, CloudFlare is getting a lower frequency and higher TDP so effectively it's a "worse" chip than standard bins and it should be easy for Intel to provide.