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I find the timing of this announcement a bit amusing. Given AMD's planned 'new horizon' announcements today, I'm assuming Intel rushed out this press release o

• ksec 8y ago
  It allows all those going to be EPYC2 buyers know or at least have an upcoming Intel chip in their mind, hopefully delaying the purchase decision until later and gives Intel sales team time to do their job. Which so far their sales team has been doing spectacularly well and literally every one who has been complaining about Intel continues to buy Intel. Sad but true. We should know more about Zen 2 in a few hours time.
  • jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
    >and literally every one who has been complaining about Intel continues to buy Intel While I am sure this isn't LITERALLY true, there is some truth to it. I work at a smallish company, who bought 3 new Intel servers about 5 months before Epyc servers started to be available from OEM's. We plan on adding another server to our stack next year, I would LOVE to go with Epyc, but I am locked into Intel at this point (until we decided to replace the entire stack). VMWare doesn't allow you to mix CPU architecture and maintain HA. So, we stuck buying a crappy Intel Xeon instead.
    • ksec 8y ago
      Judging from the Server shipment and market share this is exactly what is happening. But to be fair, many fought for EPYC, but those who made the decisions, CEO / CFO / CIO / Purchasing Director etc are all well connected with Intel.