Huge chip showcased
Lisa SU, AMD's CEO has showed the first Naples chip and trust us, it looks good.
There is no surprise as this is a 32-core single socket processor that will be known as Epyc. So, in case you haven't realized, the Opteron brand dies to makes some space for server – data center processors branded as Epyc.
Datacenter or server are a 21 billion market opportunity and AMD has played a little role. Lisa did point out that 95 percent of the market are x86 and that only Intel and AMD have the x86 instruction set architectures.
AMD is expected to launch Epyc, artist formerly known as Naples, before the end of June, simply as it always said that it will ship in Q2 2017.
AMD's CTO Mark Papermaster also mentioned varieties of new Epyc solution that include a single socket 16 and 32-core and a dual socket 48 and 64 systems wrapped around the infinity fabric.
Fudzilla talked about this interconnection back in 2015 and apparently, this has been one of the secret sauces. It is hard not to admit that we expected a brand evolving around Zen too, but AMD marketing didn't go along with our expectation.
AMD will announce more details about Epyc, aka product codenamed Naples, at a later date. One more thing, Intel doesn't have any server / data center product with 32 cores, not even on the extended roadmap, as it stops at 28 cores. It will be interesting to see who wins the price performance ratio as server / data center might be a big growth opportunity for AMD.
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