We just had tech sales folks from major hardware vendor approach us with a pitch to strongly consider AMD EPYC based servers for our next compute purchase. They

We just had tech sales folks from major hardware vendor approach us with a pitch to strongly consider AMD EPYC based servers for our next compute purchase. They highlighted * Value for money * memory performance on inter core access * more memory channels per core * still within x86 ISA negating the need for any Se rewrites. Our workloads are memory access bound. So the above points hit home. We're going to try AMD servers for the first time at this research group. If they do hold the promise, intel finally got some active competition in our realm!