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Not a chance. Intel is selling every CPU they can print. Enterprise customers are paying a premium at the moment.
by selectodude 8y ago
Not a chance. Intel is selling every CPU they can print. Enterprise customers are paying a premium at the moment.
- JackFaker 8y agoSTH previously reported that Intel began offering Xeon discounts to smaller organizations that asked for AMD EPYC price quotes. https://www.servethehome.com/intel-is-serving-major-xeon-discounts-to-combat-amd-epyc/ https://www.servethehome.com/intel-is-serving-major-xeon-dis...
- selectodude 8y agoThat's a niche market. Intel has the larger players by the balls. Very few companies are comparison shopping AMD vs Intel.
- jburgess777 8y agoYou say that, but AWS has still launched EC2 instances with both AMD and ARM CPU cores recently. I imagine Amazon buy enough Intel CPUs for them to take notice.
- Nexxxeh 8y agoI wonder if the primary driver for buying and offering alternative platforms for EC2 instances was to send Intel a message. "We aren't afraid to go to AMD if you don't make your offering more competitive."
- ksec 8y agoThat is not because there is far more demand than they can cope, it was because they had to fulfil Apple's modem order.