Big thing missing from that comparison was price…
The price for the Qualcomm part may not be public yet.
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2017/11/08/qualcomm-datacenter-technologies-announces-commercial-shipment-qualcomm
list price of $1,995, the 48 core Qualcomm Centriq 2460 processor offers greater than 4X better performance per dollar and up to 45% better performance per watt versus Intel’s highest-performance Skylake processor, the Intel Xeon Platinum 818[1].
I’m surprised that more wasn’t made of the power saving, as cloudflare’s electricity bill must be significant.
Read the final paragraph.
Big thing missing from that comparison was price…
The price for the Qualcomm part may not be public yet.
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2017/11/08/qualcomm-datacenter-technologies-announces-commercial-shipment-qualcomm
I’m surprised that more wasn’t made of the power saving, as cloudflare’s electricity bill must be significant.
Read the final paragraph.