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For CloudFlare, their workload is bandwidth intensive. So it's bad battle field for Intel because AMD offers 128 lanes PCIe on single socket. It seems that even
by fomine3 5y ago
For CloudFlare, their workload is bandwidth intensive. So it's bad battle field for Intel because AMD offers 128 lanes PCIe on single socket. It seems that even Sapphire Rapids isn't looks good. But the weakness isn't applied to all use cases.
- wmf 5y agoCloudflare is using a 25G NIC and two NVMes, so maybe 16 lanes total. I think the cores are what they want.
- hirako2000 5y agoWhat they want is high throughput per watt, just as they say, hundreds of Watts more per unit that stand up is a lot at scale. Infrastructure providers are eating up business purchases, and they do care about what used to be a blip in accounting with the electricity and estate bill, now becoming a significant part of their costs which must be optimised to compete with margin. Energy efficiency is more and more important, Intel got Apple's love with their core architecture, killing Ibm/Motorola in the mobile space. I think the same fate will happen to Intel in the server space if they don't deliver an energy efficient architecture. With the headways the apple silicon has made recently, it seems improbable that Intel will catch up.