Awesome! 🙂

Somebody gettin a nice Christmas bonus.

Great news! This might just be the kind of injection AMD need to get them into a profitable company again.

Well 32C/64T processor with 128 PCIE lanes , like AMD targeted cloud providers 🙂:)

This is really great news to hear of Epyc proportions 😉

Congrats Amd!!! They are making all the right moves honestly I am very happy for them. Being a power-user I will not lie I do like both companys Intel and Amd but as of late Intel has gotten lazy and very greedy, I hope this serves them as a good wake-up call.

Not really surprised considering the pricing and features of Epyc compared to Intel's offerings.

Once Zen proofs itself as stable platform, more companies start to consider AMD as an option. I have no doubt most infrastructure people look up for Zen and want to build servers with it, however if something happens they will be responsible for switching to AMD. If Intel server dies, well another dead machine, couldn't be helped. If AMD server dies, management start to point fingers at people who switched from Intel to AMD. Same with software and OS support. AMD is on right track, hopefully we see more trust towards AMD.

Good news, go AMD! 😱 Push Intel some more.

Amd - I salute you! 😎

sverek:

Once Zen proofs itself as stable platform, more companies start to consider AMD as an option. I have no doubt most infrastructure people look up for Zen and want to build servers with it, however if something happens they will be responsible for switching to AMD. If Intel server dies, well another dead machine, couldn't be helped. If AMD server dies, management start to point fingers at people who switched from Intel to AMD. Same with software and OS support. AMD is on right track, hopefully we see more trust towards AMD.

That might have been true 15 years ago, but today any IT person who isn't conversant with AMD isn't earning his pay...;) Think about cpu verification. It's brutal. Any cpu that passes those tests is going to be "stable"...;) All retail/server cpus go through exhaustive tests @ their rated MHz speeds before they ever hit the shrink wrap. At home I've been using AMD exclusively since 1999--never had a single problem with "stability"--never saw a single reason to go back to Intel in all of that time. What I discovered after deciding to ignore the naysayers back then was that all the noise about AMD "instability" and Incompatibility was just that--noise, most of it produced by Intel employees online at the time. Even as far back as 1999, when I got off of Intel and onto Athlon, my incidents of driver problems and overall stability was exactly the same as it had been with my Intel boards and Pentiums--before that 8086/88, 286, 386, and 486's. AMD is as solid as Intel, imo, if not moreso. Got a Ryzen 1600 coming in this week--which I'm sort of looking forward to--setting it up with an MSI Gaming Pro Carbon AC and 16GB (2x8) of Patriot Viper Elite 3200 DDR4!

waltc3:

That might have been true 15 years ago, but today any IT person who isn't conversant with AMD isn't earning his pay...;) Think about cpu verification. It's brutal. Any cpu that passes those tests is going to be "stable"...;) All retail/server cpus go through exhaustive tests @ their rated MHz speeds before they ever hit the shrink wrap. At home I've been using AMD exclusively since 1999--never had a single problem with "stability"--never saw a single reason to go back to Intel in all of that time. What I discovered after deciding to ignore the naysayers back then was that all the noise about AMD "instability" and Incompatibility was just that--noise, most of it produced by Intel employees online at the time. Even as far back as 1999, when I got off of Intel and onto Athlon, my incidents of driver problems and overall stability was exactly the same as it had been with my Intel boards and Pentiums--before that 8086/88, 286, 386, and 486's. AMD is as solid as Intel, imo, if not moreso. Got a Ryzen 1600 coming in this week--which I'm sort of looking forward to--setting it up with an MSI Gaming Pro Carbon AC and 16GB (2x8) of Patriot Viper Elite 3200 DDR4!

With AMD it's usually the other kinds of stability "concern" I heard. I.e. not the quality/software, but availability/support. It's really import for large service providers to be able to order exactly N servers/units of HW and being able to replace it at every moment. Basically the infrastructure. AMD wasn't the best on this part.

flashmozzg:

With AMD it's usually the other kinds of stability "concern" I heard. I.e. not the quality/software, but availability/support. It's really import for large service providers to be able to order exactly N servers/units of HW and being able to replace it at every moment. Basically the infrastructure. AMD wasn't the best on this part.

That is not up to amd to solve,that is server manufacturer to deal and worry about that.Amd doesn't make servers but DELL,HP,Lenovo... does

waltc3:

That might have been true 15 years ago, but today any IT person who isn't conversant with AMD isn't earning his pay...;) Think about cpu verification. It's brutal. Any cpu that passes those tests is going to be "stable"...;) All retail/server cpus go through exhaustive tests @ their rated MHz speeds before they ever hit the shrink wrap. At home I've been using AMD exclusively since 1999--never had a single problem with "stability"--never saw a single reason to go back to Intel in all of that time. What I discovered after deciding to ignore the naysayers back then was that all the noise about AMD "instability" and Incompatibility was just that--noise, most of it produced by Intel employees online at the time. Even as far back as 1999, when I got off of Intel and onto Athlon, my incidents of driver problems and overall stability was exactly the same as it had been with my Intel boards and Pentiums--before that 8086/88, 286, 386, and 486's. AMD is as solid as Intel, imo, if not moreso. Got a Ryzen 1600 coming in this week--which I'm sort of looking forward to--setting it up with an MSI Gaming Pro Carbon AC and 16GB (2x8) of Patriot Viper Elite 3200 DDR4!

Most of the past stability issues were the result of motherboard manufacturers cutting corners or using low quality components. Micro-Star International (now simply, MSI) was guilty of that in the past, as were Biostar and ECS. MSI put in a lot of effort to correct the issues though and so far, neither my Z170A Gaming Pro nor my B350 Tomahawk have shown any stability or reliability issues after the initial UEFI firmware.

kruno:

That is not up to amd to solve,that is server manufacturer to deal and worry about that.Amd doesn't make servers but DELL,HP,Lenovo... does

I'd say it's up to AMD to work with vendors and to ensure that all of its HW is readily available for those. They are not in the position to just hope that everything works out and do nothing. At the moment they need to push their product, instead of hoping that someone would be interested enough to do most of the work for them.

flashmozzg:

I'd say it's up to AMD to work with vendors and to ensure that all of its HW is readily available for those. They are not in the position to just hope that everything works out and do nothing. At the moment they need to push their product, instead of hoping that someone would be interested enough to do most of the work for them.

I think that you are overestimating AMD's influence, they are not in position to command vendors like Intel can,they are simply to small to pull that. They can make chipset and give vendors spec's but can't tell them what to do and how to implement that. Just look at consumer side of things and s**t that vendors do with AMD's mobile offerings ;single channel memory for APU that is starved for bandwidth , s**t laptop material quality, slow 5400RPM disks ...etc. I think Ars or Anand had article about the ways vendors s**w up AMD even when AMD have competitive chips. Don't expect then that "cash cow" (servers) is any better.