[marmaduke]

Cavium’s is a 96 core x 4 node in a 2U config. Sure it’s high end, but it’s what you need to compete with similar compute dense rack servers from eg Dell.

[floatboth]

The original ThunderX was up to 96 cores in 2 sockets, but single core perfomance was unimpressive (comparable to Cortex-A72).

ThunderX2 is 64 cores in 2 sockets, with 4-way SMT, up to 3GHz turbo, and the cores are way better.

// It's great that they're competing with dense rack servers, I just wish the low end to mid range market wasn't ignored :(

[marmaduke]

Yep I guess it’s a ramp up issue. Easier to have bare metal hard ware at high end and then slice it up into cheap servers.