Intel Xeon Gold 6148 & AMD EPYC 7501 Announcements ?

Some of my Linode users have reported some Linode VPS sporting Intel Xeon Gold 6148 scalable cpus and AMD EPYC 7501 cpus being offered by Linode in some datacenters. Any planned formal announcement coming ? :)

Intel Xeon 6148 Scalable

Architecture:          x86_64
CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                1
On-line CPU(s) list:   0
Thread(s) per core:    1
Core(s) per socket:    1
Socket(s):             1
NUMA node(s):          1
Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
CPU family:            6
Model:                 85
Model name:            Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6148 CPU @ 2.40GHz
Stepping:              4
CPU MHz:               2399.996
BogoMIPS:              4801.99
Virtualization:        VT-x
Hypervisor vendor:     KVM
Virtualization type:   full
L1d cache:             32K
L1i cache:             32K
L2 cache:              4096K
L3 cache:              16384K
NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0
Flags:                 fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon rep_good nopl xtopology cpuid pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 fma cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault invpcid_single pti tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm mpx avx512f avx512dq rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb avx512cd avx512bw avx512vl xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves arat pku ospke

AMD EPYC 7501

processor    : 0
vendor_id    : AuthenticAMD
cpu family    : 23
model        : 1
model name    : AMD EPYC 7501 32-Core Processor
stepping    : 2
microcode    : 0x1000065
cpu MHz        : 1999.992
cache size    : 512 KB
physical id    : 0
siblings    : 1
core id        : 0
cpu cores    : 1
apicid        : 0
initial apicid    : 0
fpu        : yes
fpu_exception    : yes
cpuid level    : 13
wp        : yes
flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm rep_good nopl cpuid extd_apicid pni pclmulqdq ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm cmp_legacy cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw vmmcall fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 rdseed adx smap clflushopt sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 arat
bugs        : fxsave_leak sysret_ss_attrs null_seg spectre_v1 spectre_v2
bogomips    : 4001.65
TLB size    : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment    : 64
address sizes    : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

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Good eye! I see you've spied some of our new hardware. We're always working to improve our platform, but we don't have any formal announcements to make right now. Be sure to keep an eye on our blog in case we have any news. We have an exciting year ahead of us, and I think you'll be happy to see what we've been working on.

cheers @sjsmith looking forward to more platform improvements :)

I currently have a 2500MHz E5-2680v3 on my Nanode 1GB. How is single-core performance on the Xeon Gold or the Epyc compared to the E5?
My main workload is a nginx server with OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre8 supporting TLS 1.2 and 1.3, and running PHP 7.2 and MySQL 5.7.22.

Only way to know for sure is find a Linode using the newer Xeon Gold or EPYC cpus to test.

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