To differentiate products for consumer and enterprise, Intel disables ECC RAM support for Core i5 or upper series and enables for Xeon E series (i3 or below is sold for both market so not disabled).

NVIDIA reduces (actually reduced on die) FP64 calculation units and disables ECC RAM support for GeForce (except some Titans) to not to be used in datacenter. Previously it works because most scientific calculations requires FP64 calculation and reliability is matter.

But now is the deep learning era, it won't need FP64 calculation and rare RAM error isn't matter. So they must enforce the EURA to avoid dirt cheap Geforce to be used in datacenter for deep learning.

I don't think the latest i3s have EcC anymore, but they are releasing Xeon Ws which are the same chips as i7s with ECC enabled.

The price premium is like ~10%, which is fair.

I've caught up latest SKUs, thanks. Rebranding Xeon E to Xeon W looks not meaningful.

No because they want students to have cuda to learn with and home devs to have so they develop tools for it. Then when the enterprises use it for profit they have to pay for the development of the platform.

It's basically the Adobe route.

How? That’s like saying an Intel i7 can’t be used in a datacentre.