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Really not sure on the "EPYC" name for an enterprise part. It seems more enthusiast then button down enterprise. But as long as it doesn't exclusively come in s
by jlawer 9y ago
Really not sure on the "EPYC" name for an enterprise part. It seems more enthusiast then button down enterprise. But as long as it doesn't exclusively come in servers with glowing neons and tri-colour fans, I don't exactly care...
I just imagine it will make it easier for intel's marketing to imply these are toys rather then true enterprise grade parts.
- monocasa 9y agoAs opposed to Xeon?
- ATsch 9y agoI personally think EPYC is a lot more tacky than Xeon or Opteron since "epic" has gaming and (internet) pop culture connotations for me. I was pretty surprised when I heard the name and heard it was an enterprise product.
- EdSharkey 9y agoMaybe it's pronounced "EP-yick", which would make it less gamey and more enterprisey.
- hinoki 9y agoI don't know, Itanium is one of the most enterprise things not made by IBM, and it was called EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing)
- pierrec 9y agoIt might be completely deliberate, as the WoW generation might be coming into positions where they are now the "enterprise guys" that need to be targeted. Or maybe I'm just reading too much into a whimsical name.
- faitswulff 9y agoI've heard of children named "Riku" and "Sora," so I think the WoW generation has definitely come of age by now...
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoYeah; for some reason it's still common to think of Millennials as being teenagers despite some of the older ones having teenagers.
- noir_lord 9y agoDepending on whose definition of millenials that's certainly true, I was born 1980, I'm 37 in a couple of weeks and some would have me as a millenial..which is kind of funny since statistically I'm damn near half way through my life.
- atkbro 9y agoRiku is a pretty common Finnish name. Sora on the other hand means "gravel" in Finnish. Suprisingly there are few Finns named Sora too.
- colechristensen 9y agoCan confirm, I worked in an enterprise where WoW participation was ... prevalent.
- slizard 9y agoI do think that might have played a role here, smart product naming for the Internet-generation will have an impact even in the enterprise settings!
- legulere 9y agoIntel also used EPIC to describe VLIW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicitly_parallel_instruction_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicitly_parallel_instructio...
- yk 9y agoIt also has "disruptive performance." I am not sure if I should take it as a good sign, that AMD talks more with reddit than with their marketing department.
- yuhong 9y agoI should also mention that they are targeting only single and dual socket.