Current Ryzen CPUs support ECC, so presumably so will the Threadripper variant. See Lisa Su's comment(!) on Reddit repro'd on this page: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-review...

That's not an answer. That's just Intel being dicks.

Silly example. All the below are 4 cores/8 threads.

  Xeon E3-1230 v6 kaby lake 3.5 GHz - 3.9 GHz $250
  Xeon E3-1240 v6 kaby lake 3.7 GHz - 4.1 GHz $272
  Core i7-7700    kaby lake 3.6 GHz - 4.2 GHz $303
  Xeon E3-1270 v6 kaby lake 3.8 GHz - 4.2 GHz $328
  Core i7-7700k   kaby lake 4.2 GHz - 4.5 GHz $339

What's the ECC premium again? Clearly they are on pretty similar price/performance curves.

I agree with this, Intel uses it as a margin enhancer. My CPU was $150 more than the equivalent desktop processor.

Threadripper 1950X with ECC, 16 instead of 10 cores, 64 instead of 44 PCIe lanes and without a raid dongle which prevents certain raid modes unless you pay for them (like with Intel): $999.

I love competition. Though I would prefer if there was a third competitior in the x86 CPU space and the GPU space.