How long until Workstation/Server Ryzen CPUs?

[finnjaeger]

I haven´t looked at AMD CPUs since the opteron launch way back so I got a couple of questions.

 

I ususally upgrade my workstation once a year or so, always killing the biggest bottleneck that I have for good value/perfomance parts.   Currently I am running the 8 Core Extreme i7 on X99. 128Gb Ram and 4x GTX 980ti  adding to that a 40Gbit NIC and some other PCI-E stuff.. 

 

Anyways, I want to upgrade the system later this year and I am thinking of going with AMD this time, looking at value/performance those ryzen chips sound pretty awesome to me, although I would need a more workstation/server oriented chipset that supports more than 28 or the 32 Pci-e lane, my i7 has 40.  

 

Is there anything they announced in the Server space that I missed?  AMD was always in the game with Dual opteron systems as I remeber, maybe we will see some dual Ryzen systems in the near future? Just imagine Dual Ryzen 1800X "Server edition"   for like $1000 Each. they would kill the Xenon in an instant.  and it SHOULD be possible.

I am scared that Intel has some weird features that makes it impossible for big server manufacturers to go AMD, something like that whole virtualisation crap for ESX servers or something. 

 

 

What do you guys think? will AMD go professional or are they just going to target gamers?   

[alexcheetah]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3158919/servers/amd-talks-tough-as-it-drums-up-support-for-32-core-zen-server-chip.html This was from January.

[finnjaeger]

yea ive seen the naples stuff, but at this low of a clockspeed its not really that usefull for me sadly, I would need something in between those 2 ..