EPYC
AMD has sent word over this morning that the company is extending the product lifecycle for their previous-generation EYPC 7003 “Milan” family of server CPUs. The company will now be offering the Zen 3-based CPUs through at least 2026, and as part of that extension plan, has already launched a further 6 SKUs. With these changes, Milan is effectively being repositioned as a budget server platform for AMD, offering AMD’s past tech at a discount to cost-weary customers. First launched in early 2021, AMD’s EPYC 7003 “Milan” platform is based on the company’s Zen 3 architecture, offering chips with up to 64 CPU cores, 8 channels of DDR4 memory, and PCIe 4.0 connectivity. The platform has since been superseded by AMD’s numerous Zen 4-based EPYC...
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su: Interview on 2021 Demand, Supply, Tariffs, Xilinx, and EPYC
Following the keynote press conference, AMD invited a number of key press partners for some Q&A time with Dr. Lisa Su. On the table, we were told, was any...
72 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/12/2021
AMD Previews 3rd Gen EPYC ‘Milan’ Performance
Since the announcement of AMD’s Zen 3 core microarchitecture, we’ve been expecting three series of products to be announced: desktop Ryzen, mobile Ryzen, and enterprise EPYC. So far the...
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AMD EPYC Rome in (Deep) Mini-ITX? ASRock Rack's New ROMED4ID-2T
ASRock Rack has unveiled its latest small form factor motherboard designed for AMD's EYPC processors, the ROMED4ID-2T. It is based on a new proprietary form factor similar to Mini-ITX...
25 by Gavin Bonshor on 11/26/2020
Oracle Announces Upcoming Cloud Compute Instances: Ice Lake and Milan, A100 and Altra
When the name “Oracle” is thrown around, hardware isn’t typically the first thing that comes to mind for most people. But, like other large tech companies that originally made...
18 by Ryan Smith on 9/22/2020
AMD Preps Second Round of HPC System Donations For COVID-19 Research
When things aren’t blowing up or burning down as of late, there’s still the matter of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While the first generation of vaccines move carefully closer...
19 by Ryan Smith on 9/14/2020
AMD Announces Ryzen Threadripper Pro: Workstation Parts for OEMs Only
Last year we spotted that AMD was in the market to hire a new lead product manager for a ‘workstation division’. This was a categorically different position to the...
76 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/14/2020
Google’s new Confidential Virtual Machines on 2nd Gen AMD EPYC
With AMD’s market share slowly increasing, it becomes very interesting to see where EPYC is being deployed. The latest announcement today comes from AMD and Google, with news that...
21 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/14/2020
GIGABYTE’s 4U 10x NVIDIA A100 New G492 Servers Announced
One of the interesting elements about NVIDIA’s A100 card is the potential compute density offered, especially for AI applications. There is set to be a strong rush to enable...
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ASRock Rack Offers Rome mATX Motherboard with only 6 Memory Channels
One of the items that makes a motherboard immediately standout is the amount of memory slots it has. For mainstream platforms, having two or four memory slots, for dual...
28 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/8/2020
The Supermicro H11DSi Motherboard Mini-Review: The Sole Dual EPYC Solution
Users looking to build their own dual EPYC workstation or system, using completely off-the-shelf components, do not have a lot of options. Users can buy most of the CPUs...
37 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/13/2020
AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund: Initial $15m Donation of EPYC and Radeon Hardware
One element to the recent pandemic has been the number of organizations banding together to unite for specific research into SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. We are in an era now...
20 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/16/2020
Tyan Updates Transport HX Barebones To Support AMD EPYC 7F32 CPU
Alongside today's launch of AMD's new EPYC 7F32, 7F52, and 7F72 processors, stalwart server motherboard and chassis vendor Tyan has officially announced their support for the new chips. Complimenting...
3 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/14/2020
AMD’s New EPYC 7F52 Reviewed: The F is for ᴴᴵᴳᴴ Frequency
Everyone wants a fast processor. The ability to get more stuff done is one of a number of guiding principles of business. However, business also needs consistency, safety and...
101 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/14/2020
The GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0 Motherboard Review: EPYC with Dual 10G
The workstation and server markets are big business for not only chip manufacturers such as Intel and AMD, but for motherboard vendors too. Since AMD's introduction of its Zen-based...
37 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/25/2020
Microsoft Now Offers Azure NVv4 Virtual Machines with AMD EPYC & Radeon Instinct
AMD’s 2nd Generation EPYC processors have gained a strong recognition among cloud computing companies, and today numerous instances are powered by AMD’s latest server CPUs. By contrast, however, the...
19 by Anton Shilov on 3/18/2020
Updated AMD Ryzen and EPYC CPU Roadmaps March 2020: Milan, Genoa, and Vermeer
Everyone is interested in roadmaps – they give us a sense of an idea of what is coming in the future, and for the investors, it gives a level...
60 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/5/2020
AMD Moves From Infinity Fabric to Infinity Architecture: Connecting Everything to Everything
Another element to AMD’s Financial Analyst Day 2020 was the disclosure of how the company intends to evolve its interconnect strategy with its Infinity Fabric (IF). The plan over...
18 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/5/2020
AMD Expands EPYC Lineup with 64-Core EPYC 7662 & Large Cache EPYC 7532 CPUs
Today AMD has added two new processors into the EPYC lineup: the EPYC 7662, its fifth 64-core CPU for applications that need loads of cores, as well as the...
24 by Anton Shilov on 2/19/2020
TureMetal Builds a Fanless 32-Core EPYC PC with an RTX 2070
Turemetal, a maker of cases for fanless PCs, has published photos of a passively cooled system featuring an AMD EPYC processor and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 graphics card...
25 by Anton Shilov on 12/30/2019
AnandTech Year In Review 2019: Lots of CPUs
Throughout 2019, we’ve had quite the reverse of performance when it comes to the competitiveness of the modern performance-oriented desktop processor. This year we’ve seen AMD introduce its Zen...
25 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/27/2019
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