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AMD’s Epyc Return To The Datacenter Ring

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  1. Cmdrd
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    Definitely my favourite takeaway from this: Looks like AMD will be following up the success of Epyc v1 with continuing pressure on Intel. Definitely can't complain about solid competition in the...

    Definitely my favourite takeaway from this:

    “Our plan for the Naples-Rome-Milan roadmap was based on assumptions around Intel’s roadmap and our estimation of what would we do if we were Intel,” Norrod continues. “We thought deeply about what they are like, what they are not like, what their culture is and what their likely reactions are, and we planned against a very aggressive Intel roadmap, and I really Rome and Milan and what is after them against what we thought Intel could do. And then, we come to find out that they can’t do what we thought they might be able to. And so, we have an incredible opportunity. Rome was designed to compete favorably with “Ice Lake” Xeons, but it is not going to be competing against that chip. We are incredibly excited, and it is all coming together at one point. We have reintroduced ourselves to the market, gotten the initial traction and wins, we got the initial customer support, and we validated that AMD is a safe choice with an effective processor. With the Rome processor and process, we are going to be in an incredible position going forward.”
    - Forrest Norrod, AMD Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Datacenter and Embedded Solutions Business Group

    Looks like AMD will be following up the success of Epyc v1 with continuing pressure on Intel. Definitely can't complain about solid competition in the CPU space, it's great seeing AMD back in the game like this.

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