<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>evfanknitram</author><text>Tiny correction: Should be 1.53 TB, not 1.53 GB</text><parent_chain><item><author>nordsieck</author><text>Case in point:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; chips will support up to 3.84 TB of memory per socket ... due to combining 512 GB Optane DIMMs and 128GB DDR4 DIMMs&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ...&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; in a 6 x Optane and 6 x DDR4 configuration, they will provide 3072 GB of 3D XPoint memory and 768 GB of DDR4 RAM for a total of 3.84 TB of memory&lt;p&gt;Optane DIMMs don&amp;#x27;t really have the performance characteristics of traditional DRAM. It sounds like the real capacity per socket is 12 x 128GB = 1.53 GB, which is the same capacity as the previous generation.&lt;p&gt;That being said, I&amp;#x27;m optimistic about Optane DIMMs - it seems like an interesting performance point in between DRAM and SSDs.</text></item><item><author>dantiberian</author><text>A few months ago Intel pulled a stunt where they showed a 28 core 5GHz CPU, implying it was a production CPU that would ship this year. They failed to mention that it was attached to an industrial compressor to supply the necessary cooling for the overclocked CPU, and that it was a server socket (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.anandtech.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;12932&amp;#x2F;intel-confirms-some-details-about-28core-5-ghz-demonstration&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.anandtech.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;12932&amp;#x2F;intel-confirms-some-det...&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;Since then, whenever I see a headline with Intel in it, I heavily discount it until I can verify the facts. They’ve damaged my trust, and I suspect many others.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel’s High-End Cascade Lake CPUs to Support 3.84 TB of Memory per Socket</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/13059/intels-upcoming-cascade-lake-cpus-to-support-384-tb-of-memory</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nottorp</author><text>Yeah, marketing lies. Go AMD go!</text><parent_chain><item><author>nordsieck</author><text>Case in point:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; chips will support up to 3.84 TB of memory per socket ... due to combining 512 GB Optane DIMMs and 128GB DDR4 DIMMs&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; ...&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; in a 6 x Optane and 6 x DDR4 configuration, they will provide 3072 GB of 3D XPoint memory and 768 GB of DDR4 RAM for a total of 3.84 TB of memory&lt;p&gt;Optane DIMMs don&amp;#x27;t really have the performance characteristics of traditional DRAM. It sounds like the real capacity per socket is 12 x 128GB = 1.53 GB, which is the same capacity as the previous generation.&lt;p&gt;That being said, I&amp;#x27;m optimistic about Optane DIMMs - it seems like an interesting performance point in between DRAM and SSDs.</text></item><item><author>dantiberian</author><text>A few months ago Intel pulled a stunt where they showed a 28 core 5GHz CPU, implying it was a production CPU that would ship this year. They failed to mention that it was attached to an industrial compressor to supply the necessary cooling for the overclocked CPU, and that it was a server socket (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.anandtech.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;12932&amp;#x2F;intel-confirms-some-details-about-28core-5-ghz-demonstration&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.anandtech.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;12932&amp;#x2F;intel-confirms-some-det...&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;Since then, whenever I see a headline with Intel in it, I heavily discount it until I can verify the facts. They’ve damaged my trust, and I suspect many others.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Intel’s High-End Cascade Lake CPUs to Support 3.84 TB of Memory per Socket</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/13059/intels-upcoming-cascade-lake-cpus-to-support-384-tb-of-memory</url></story>