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Re:AMD Launches Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs by Whinner on Friday February 28, 2020 @10:20AM (#22443322)
Something to keep in mind if you use it, VMware just changed their licensing for CPUs over 32 cores require an additional ESXi license. So that 64 core processor now requires 2 licenses instead of one!
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Re:AMD Launches Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs by jmt_ on Friday February 28, 2020 @11:12AM (#22443760)
Wow, I had no idea. Super useful to know. Just seems like a money grab from VMware.
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Re:AMD Launches Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs by blakes on Friday February 28, 2020 @12:32PM (#22444474)
MS has done the same thing, they all saw the writing on the wall a few years ago.

MS licensing is complicated, but you must buy a minimum of 16 cores, then you get license packs for additional cores.

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Re:AMD Launches Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs by jagger27 on Friday February 28, 2020 @02:51PM (#22445743)
My grey market Windows Server 2019 Standard (with Hyper-V) key happily activated on my 48-core system. What's the proper way to buy a license?
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