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  • Ian Cutress - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link

    As given through Twitter, Supermicro also seems to be releasing a set of unannounced Denverton CPUs. https://www.supermicro.nl/products/motherboard/ATO...
  • ddriver - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link

    No mention of ECC?
  • CajunArson - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link

    The C3338 which is the smaller version of the chip that's already on the market has official ECC support.

    https://ark.intel.com/products/97928/Intel-Atom-Pr...

    If that small 2-core part has ECC and if Intel is expressly talking about RDIMM support for the 16 core version, it's a pretty safe bet that ECC support is in there.
  • bolkhov - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link

    Ian, Denverton is already "announced".
    See https://ark.intel.com/products/codename/63508/Denv...
  • ddriver - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link

    Workstation?

    Really?

    I bet it will be a productivity beast with those 30 watts worth of CPU power...
  • kaidenshi - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link

    Yeah, I don't get the "workstation" mention either. However, if this is priced right, it would be a great base for a custom NAS; it ticks all the boxes for what I would want anyway.
  • blahsaysblah - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link

    You put it inside your workstation to handle your storage array. ;)
  • ddriver - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link

    The funny thing is I have already build several such systems that feature a "built in" secondary linux system for storage, routing and whatnot, this way the primary system is offloaded and isolated from internet. Browsing happens through vnc from a sandboxed browser on the linux board.
  • Anonymous Blowhard - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link

    >16 SATA via SFF-8087
    >Dual 10GbE SFP+
    >128GB of RDIMM
    >32GB eMMC for OS load

    So how much of my money do they have to shut up and take?

    (Although I'd prefer that eMMC be on a removable board/SATADOM personally.)
  • Glock24 - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link

    "This C3958 is another unannounced processor from Intel."

    It was unannounced to take AMD off guard, it's Intel's Threadripper killer! Bwahahaha!
  • hechacker1 - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link

    So i'll be looking closely at this for benchmarks. It has everything you need for a really nice NAS build. I have a Avoton 8 core supermicro board, and it makes a perfect FreeNAS / Server 2016 box, and it handles transcodes well until you start getting into high quality blu-ray rips.

    Avoton single threaded performance is also really crappy on Server 2016, and even Freenas with a simple apache server has a slow response time. I can get about 3-4Gbps tops with my current build. I think single threaded performance is holding it back.

    Even simple FreeNAS transparent ZFS compression slows it down.

    However, will this be better than a really underclocked 8 core Zen? That's what i'm interested in. But it might be tough finding a Zen mobo with remote management and 10Gbit that fits in a mini-ITX chassis.

    And there's also those Xeon chips purpose designed for this with 10Gbit integrated.
  • ddriver - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link

    A 65 watt ryzen pro solution with ecc, 10gibt lan and at least 12 channel controller would be great.
  • andychow - Thursday, August 24, 2017 - link

    This has dual 10Gbit SPF, quickassist, 4 mini-sas. That makes it rather unique. Otherwise, I doubt the performance will be different than Avoton. It's still Atom core, so that's that.
  • bolkhov - Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - link

    As of now (16-Aug-2017 02:43 AM UTC) the C3958 *is* announced, along with a big "Denverton" family. Even more, all those SKUs are marked as "Launched".
    C3958: https://ark.intel.com/products/97927/Intel-Atom-Pr...
    Denverton: https://ark.intel.com/products/codename/63508/Denv...
  • speculatrix - Thursday, August 17, 2017 - link

    it's interesting that the C3958 is lower spec that the C3955, the latter has very slightly higher power consumption.
  • levifig - Tuesday, October 31, 2017 - link

    The C3958 has Intel's QuickAssist, which probably makes up the difference in max clock (and more) in crypto tasks (e.g. SSL, etc). If using this CPU for NAS/Routing/Firewall, I bet QA (if supported) will end up being a more welcome advantage than the extra 100MHz clock speed… :)

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