I guess they still offer their CPUs, chipsets, and SSDs for servers?

As the article says, they are a silicon company not an assembly company.

Intel actually exited the SSD (and NAND flash) business. It was sold to SK Hynix and renamed to Solidigm.

Correct.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-...

Intel is still making plenty of server CPUs (and other components).

This is servers, the systems like Dell, Supermicro, and others sell, not server CPUs (aka Xeons)

Is it so surprising that Intel's server line is unmemorable, given the sexy names such as A2U44X25NVMEDK?

Well that was the part number for the NVMe expansion kit. TBH that is one of the hardest things about doing server reviews on YouTube... The model names

I've always wondered, do you have some kind of cheat sheet that you read from when you do your reviews on YouTube? Or full on teleprompter? I've always been very impressed by your ability to remember SuperMicro model numbers. Sometimes I wonder how many takes a certain segments must have taken.

Sometimes 2-3 tries but that is also from pacing. I usually have my laptop out to reference quickly but no prompter. People can tell when I read from one, so I have just had to get comfortable without reading.

Is the idea similar to NUC but for servers instead? (Probably a grossly inaccurate approximation)

My guess is that they're cutting the portfolio down to feature only chipsets and add-in cards. Just CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, networking, and the associated add-in cards for all of the above. It makes sense if anything - it really focuses on their core business. No more side-projects with questionable profitability.

In the last 2 years since Pat Gelsinger took over, they've cut RealSense, Movidius, Optane Memory, IPO'd MobileEye, and now exited the Server Systems business. The only odd-balls left are their NUC business. Considering how popular these are in the enterprise market I can't it going anywhere any time soon, beyond spinning it out into a separate company.