https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/damien-cox/amds-epyc-success-is-paving-the-way-for-7nm-server-chips/ AMD’s senior director of data centre and embedded solutions group Daniel Bounds has stated that the company’s goal is not to beat Intel, but to make the greatest impact possible in the market through innovation.
The average server lifespan has moved from 3.7 years to 5.2 years, however we are at a time where “millions of virtualised servers” are experiencing degraded performance as they reach the end of their life cycle. This is where Bounds says AMD’s EPYC comes in, reducing licensing and total cost of ownership (TCO) costs by up to $100,000 without sacrifice towards performance thanks to the increased amount of cores and single socket offering.
the true future of EPYC servers lies in its 7nm chips, codenamed Rome. Apparently we won’t have too much longer to wait until AMD lifts the lid on what to expect, as Rome is currently sampling ahead of its 2019 launch. I think it is incredible that AMD will have 7nm CPUs early next year and Intel is stuck at 14nm.