Crazy the amount of cores and memory these new cpu’s can address.  I feel like AMD is certainly using the processor’s strengths in its marketing (which any company should) to beat the Intel.  I’m very curious to see an independant review of both of them side-by-side to see how they fair.

From the article:

Naples is a two-socket server chip aimed squarely at Intel’s Broadwell-EP-based Xeon E5 V4 range, and the overall theme of AMD’s chip is “have more of everything.” Naples has 32 cores, capable of 64 simultaneous threads, 16 memory channels, supporting up to 512GB RAM, and 128 PCIe 3.0 lanes. Intel’s comparable offering? Twenty-two cores and 44 threads, 8 memory channels, and a maximum of only 384 GB RAM.

And further down, this is perhaps even more exciting!

The same I/O channels will also support Ethernet and NVMe storage; Naples is, like Ryzen, a system-on-a-chip, and it supports up to 12 NVMe drives. It also supports Ethernet, though AMD hasn’t specified the number of Ethernet ports supported or the maximum supported link speed.

Source: AMD Naples server processor: more cores, bandwidth, memory than Intel | Ars Technica