AMD Lands Google, Twitter as Customers With Newest Server Chip (reuters.com) 57
Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday released the second generation of its processor chip for data centers and said that it had landed Alphabet's Google and Twitter as customers. From a report: AMD competes against Intel to supply chips for data centers that power internet-based services. Both firms have come to rely on data center chips for growth because personal computer sales have stagnated as users shifted to mobile devices. AMD's newest generation of server chip, called EPYC, uses a new chip-making technology from its contract manufacturers that helps the chips have better performance while consuming less power. Intel, which makes chips in its own factories instead of relying on contractors, is behind schedule delivering chips made with its own newer manufacturing process. It plans to release them next year.
intel is melting down! (Score:5, Funny)
intel is melting down!
Re:intel is melting down! (Score:5, Funny)
That is speculative!
Re:intel is melting down! (Score:4, Interesting)
I have seen you floating this idea before.
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You also have QualComm, Samsung, Realtek and a host of other ARM producers. I'm surprised Google isn't running on their own optimized ARM clusters.
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Bye, Intel! (Score:3, Interesting)
RIP Intel, 1968-2019
Re:Bye, Intel! (Score:5, Insightful)
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Hey.. hey wait though, Intel developed their own x64 type instruction set... oh, you mean it fell through a crack in the floor and died and everyone let it die and forgot about it, like Kendall, never to be thought of again? How sad.
Intel did and had it in hardware but it was a backup plan in case Itanium failed. They had no intention of ever using it and the plan was for 64 bit Itanium to replace 32 bit x86.
Then AMD released their 64 bit implementation and hardware so Intel's backup plan became releasing their 64 bit implementation to undermine AMD but Microsoft said no because support for AMD was already established.
So Intel's 64 bit instruction set died a well deserved death.
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Wow, how innovative!
Yeah we know. Real innovation was the Itanium IA64 architecture. That is why everyone is using it now!
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Yea, they need to keep up like Intel was with insecure speculative execution tricks to add performance!
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It was named AMD64 because it's from AMD, and it's 64bit.
This is literally what I'm saying.
Nice but not the end for Intel (Score:2)
Don't count Intel out just yet, they have a long history of anti-competitive behavior that has kept them going this long. I don't know what tricks they are going to pull this time around but having an inferior chip didn't never stopped them from rigging the market in their favor. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they started buying up motherboard design companies just to put out loads of faulty AMD boards that burned up processors.
If you think I'm kidding or that sounds crazy then you should learn a b
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Yep, it is good to see AMD catching up a little. But Intel still has the performance to stay ahead of AMD at the top tier but AMD has a pretty decent economy lead on Intel, but that can be fixed with just a couple of price adjustments so that still keeps AMD on some shaky ground if Intel gets really anti-competitive with them.
I am also sure Intel's ass is still burning because AMD beat them to 64-bit processing and set the standard.
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Singled Threaded performance is still important.
Comparing Thread counts is like comparing traffic lanes. He with the most wins and that is not a valid measurement. There are always ways to add threads, but by and large there are a great many things that still run single threaded. The more work you can do in a single thread is still important though obviously not the only factor to consider.
I have participated in and evaluated numerous systems performance benchmarks at both the workstation and server leve
A strong position for AMD to be in (Score:3)
Epyc Rome is good on its own but what makes this an even bigger launch is the same thing that made Ryzen 3 big last month; Intel has stagnated. A lot comes down to the repeated delays of 10nm, AMD's own people have said Zen was designed to compete with Ice Lake but they ended up going against a warmed over Skylake.
AMD should milk this for as long as they can. Intel will have a viable competitor eventually and then the race is back on so now is the time to regain market share. Its not enough for them to just be competitive if they want to grow. If its the same then there is no compelling reason to leave the comfortable safety of Intel. AMD can only convince vendors and IT departments to switch if they have an obviously superior value proposition. Looking at the published MSRPs it looks like they are taking that seriously. Its amazing how much more you get for your money with Epyc than Xeon. AMD has trashed Intel's carefully structured pricing model.
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Intel will have a viable competitor eventually
Citation?
You dont seem to understand that Intel is fucked, and not fucked by AMD. Intel is fucked by every rent-a-fab on the planet.
The only way for Intel to "save" itself is to stop being Intel, to stop being a vertically structured mortuary slab that cant keep its FABs running 24/7/365.
All those rent-a-fabs have no trouble selling 100% of their FABs time. Being one of them is Intels way out, but that means they need to stop being Intel.
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Cool your jets fanboy. Intel is a long way from fucked yet.
Even Intel understood that its fucked, at least as far back as early 2016, when they laid off over ten thousand employees while simultaneously announcing their new "cloud strategy."
The turn-around time on latest-tech processors is ~4 years. The stuff AMD is releasing now began in 2015.
Intel is fucked. It will take another 6 years for Intel to officially become the new Motorola, but its going to happen. I know it. Tech experts know it. Intel knows it. Its too late for them. They wasted 5 years chasing 1
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The only way for Intel to "save" itself
Intel doesn't need to save itself as long as they can keep charging a premium for their product. I mean Intel is so fucked they only posted a $4.19billion dollar net profit last quarter. AMD's profit the same quarter wasn't even measured in billions.
It's cool to seem AMD back with products, but they are still a very much struggling company, Intel is still very much a behemoth, and you are very much delusional.
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