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Amateur in this space. What are the barriers to AMD taking Intel's market share?
by Tomminn 7y ago
Amateur in this space. What are the barriers to AMD taking Intel's market share?
- einpoklum 7y agoWell... inertia; some software relying on actually having an Intel, or being specifically optimized for them and them only; more offerings of Intel-CPU-based servers; more server designer experience with Intel rather than AMD; legal and perhaps sometimes not so legal lobbying by Intel; high-level-personal and company-collaborative relations of Intel with governments, academic institutes and large companies. I think that mostly covers it.
- fnord123 7y agoOEM and data centres are the big accounts. Power consumption is crucial to battery life in remote devices (in this case, laptops) and electricity is roughly 50% of the cost of a super computer over five years (a lot of it is for cooling, and it's presumably less for data centres used for cloud or storage). If Dell sells more laptops with AMD and Amazon rents more AMD instances (m5ad, r5ad: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amd-epyc-powered-amazon-ec2-m5ad-and-r5ad-instances/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amd-epyc-powered-amazon...) then AMD should be quite happy.
- elorant 7y agoAvailability is one problem. I live in Greece and wanted to build a medium workstation back in April. There were only two available Epyc processors in the market and only two mobos. I ended up building a rig with two Xeons in which case there were hundreds of available models/motherboards. It was either that or the option of buying from a German shop.