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Looks like this news item is made up from recent Intel's press release [1] and quite a bit of hand-waving. Take, for example, a claim that 'it would radically increase the number of people that could be supported for the same price'. We already have E7 series Xeons that support up to 1.5TB of RAM [2] (is it per socket? there can be up to 8 sockets per server) At that point, surely we would be constrained by processing and I/O, not RAM.

[1] http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2015...

[2] http://ark.intel.com/products/84685/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-...



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