When you're building out your DC, its a function of cost relative to performance/power use. I could see new setups may look at AMD over Intel, especially if the

When you're building out your DC, its a function of cost relative to performance/power use. I could see new setups may look at AMD over Intel, especially if they're running workloads impacted by the software fix, at least for the current generation of CPU's, maybe even the next 1-2 that are in the pipeline. When you're scaling up/maintaining your DC, you're much more likely to be looking for single sku, like for like products that allow similar tooling, knowledge base, experience etc... Like you said, monoculture has its benefits in some situations. Personally even with this bug I'd be very hesitant to switch. Our previous tests between them for very specific workloads showed our best cost/performance was with Intel over successive generations, and the scaling/tip over points were different. We have a combination of experience and knowledge around the existing arch and how our applications and workloads interact with it that involved a number of pain points that I'm not sure its worth it to re-experience with another arch. On the other hand, those running on non-bare metal, cloud based, auto-scaling/automated solutions that have a wider tolerance for individual app performance, are probably in a situation where they care less about this, but at the same time have little to no say in the arch they run on, that decision is left to the cloud providers they use. just my 2 cents anyways.