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AMD is in a great place at the moment - but we need to see what the smaller Zen cores coming this year can do, and what the Zen 2 release next year look like. I
by InTheArena 9y ago
AMD is in a great place at the moment - but we need to see what the smaller Zen cores coming this year can do, and what the Zen 2 release next year look like. If they have solid, significant improvements, it means that AMD is set for a bit, and can really compete and take marketshare from Intel.
Better yet, I am really hopeful about Epyc - it still doesn't seem to be shipping in huge numbers, but as someone really burned by Meltdown, it seems like perfect timing for AMD to compete.
- lawrenceyan 9y agoIf you don't mind me asking, in what capacity were you affected by the Intel Meltdown exploits? Was it an issue in terms of security, performance, etc?
- e1ven 9y agoNot OP, but I personally was pretty heavily affected - I run Robohash.org, which runs off a bunch of Digital Ocean droplets. I needed to fire up ~ 30% additional nodes after they did their migration. I didn't measure as carefully as I could have, but the existing nodes couldn't keep up with demand after the upgrade.
- InTheArena 9y agoDatabase performance dropped badly, and we had to increase the number of database servers.