The Appetite For Datacenter Compute Is Ravenous - by TPM
The Next Platform, Monday, June 24th, 2024
It has been an invaluable asset for AMD as it re-engaged in the datacenter in the past decade to have Forrest Norrod as the general manager of its datacenter business. Norrod ran the custom server business at Dell for many years after working on X86 processors at Cyrix and being a development engineer at Hewlett Packard.
In the wake of revelations about the impending 'Turin' Epyc server CPUs and the Instinct GPU roadmap at Computex 2024, we had a playful chat with Norrod about the market for CPUs and GPUs in the datacenter these days.
We talked about the competitive threat of Arm server CPUs and joked about the lawsuit that would emerge if AMD decided to clone an Nvidia GPU so it could run the entire Nvidia software stack and thus remove the main barrier of adoption for AMD GPUs. But that was not really a serious part of the conversation.