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Ouch. I (hypothetically -- some alternative version of me that had more free time and free money) would be willing to pay some early adopter, "I'm buying fun parts" tax, but $7k for 32 threads @ 1.7GHz is a bit much even for hypothesizing. I wonder what they have in mind for that chip, then.

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It's mainly intended as a server CPU, which often go for for lots of cores / threads over maximum single core clockspeed. That 32 core / 1.7GHz config doesn't seem too hot for either though.

The workstation is presumably intended as a developer tool really, for those that want real hardware on hand instead of remote access (and don't want a noisy server in an office). Going to be even more niche and low volume than the server versions, so gonna cost a fair chunk.

For fun parts you can get an NXP LX2160A board from SolidRun (or the earlier Marvell Armada8k one).

The performance wouldn't be competitive (Cortex-A72 is really old by now) but it's nice to have a proper arm64 desktop.

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