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<rant> Intel has decided to make Xeon Laptop parts. Xeon for Skylake means has AVX512. It amazingly doesn't mean what it historically meant ("server part").

I don't like that this means most developer laptops won't have AVX512 (I'm hoping for a new Skylake "Xeon" mbp), but Lenovo and others have already released some.

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On the other hand: this means that it is finally possible to get a laptop with an intel cpu and ECC DRAM!

(And I'm guessing, really I hope, that I won't have to look up every xeon laptop part in intel ark to see if it supports vt-x and vt-d - I hope xeon means "no need for further market segmentation, all features that make sense are enabled")


I thought Skylake finally made VT-d a baseline feature (like VT-x has been for a while).




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