Dell EMC World: 14G servers are going to be great and... that's about all we can say Dell EMC cannot say anything about the upcoming 14G server line because Intel has blasted it with non-disclosure agreements. Server division president Ashley Gorakhpurwalla told us that he and other product area presidents in Dell EMC all know about the new 14G technologies but can't tell anyone. That tells us a few things, …
Get everyone to announce on the same day only increases the intensity competition between the vendors and slavish adherence to the Intel metronome ......so Intel makes more money, and the poor sods who make the servers make less and less. A fools' game Ern.
The answer is get off the metronome and announce a few days later, see what the competition does, and then adjust your pricing to optimize your business, not Intel's.
One interesting thing about Skylake is that they have moved from a ring topology, (Broadwell), to a 2D mesh. As they increase the number of cores eventually, (i.e. now), the ring topology becomes a bottleneck which is why they have doubled the bandwidth by moving to a 2D layout. The problem with this is it increases latency between cores and memory, so data affinity becomes an even bigger issues than it is today.
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