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This sounds fairly obviously fake. 128 cores at a TDP of 950W means only ~7.4W per core, which would be a massive improvement on the i9-9990XE - which can only do 5Ghz - and requires 18.4W per core. A tiny, hitherto unknown company with only a handful of engineers managing to outperform Intel by this huge of a margin strains credulity past breaking point.

They also talk about air-cooling four of the 600W model in a 2U chassis! I'm not convinced how possible it is to handle 600W for any reasonable socket size with air cooling at all - the watts per mm2 ratios are going to be very high - but the idea that you can air-cool 2.4kW from the CPUs alone (and at these speeds there are going to be a lot of other very warm components in there) in a 2U chassis is simply crazy.

parent jfindley 4 years ago

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