AMD Widens Server Cpu Line To Take Bites Out Of Intel, Arm
The Next Platform, Wednesday, June 14,2023
The best defense is a good offense, and as it turns out, the best offense is also a good offense. So while AMD is all polite-like in its presentations, rest assured that with the ever enwidening and embiggening Epyc server chip lineup, AMD is absolutely meaning to bring offense to Intel, the Arm collective, and any RISC-V upstarts that think it is a pushover.
Six new CPUs in the 'Zen 4' family of chips - that is the fourth generation of the Zen core used in the Epyc processors - were unveiled this week, three with a streamlined Zen 4c core aimed at hyperscalers and cloud builders and three with 3D V-Cache to boost the L3 cache on the devices and thereby boost certain HPC workloads by around 1.7X.
The Epyc family of server CPUs using the Zen 4 core types will have four distinct instantiations compared to one for the 'Naples' Epyc 7001 generation from 2017 and the 'Rome' Epyc 7002 generation from 2019 and two from the 'Milan' Epyc 7003 generation that started rolling out in 2021.