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While AWS is one of the largest buyers, I doubt that they have a significant share of Intel's profits. There are probably a handful of companies buying (nearly)

by dx034 9y ago

While AWS is one of the largest buyers, I doubt that they have a significant share of Intel's profits. There are probably a handful of companies buying (nearly) as much and sales will be dominated by small datacentres and enterprise customers. A lot of Xeons don't end up in servers but in workstation computers.

dhd415 9y ago
From the reports I've seen, the big vendors (HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc.) ship about 3x more servers than workstations. And that probably understates the degree to which Xeons end up in servers rather than workstations since HP, Dell, and Lenovo account for a significant percentage of the workstation market whereas there are a lot more vendors and custom-built hardware in the server/datacenter markets.