EPYC
In a brief note posted to its investor relations portal this morning, AMD has announced that they will be holding a special AI and data center-centric event on June 13th. Dubbed the “AMD Data Center and AI Technology Premiere”, the live event is slated to be hosted by CEO Dr. Lisa Su, and will be focusing on AMD’s AI and data center product portfolios – with a particular spotlight on AMD’s expanded product portfolio and plans for growing out these market segments. The very brief announcement doesn’t offer any further details on what content to expect. However, the very nature of the event points a clear arrow at AMD’s forthcoming Instinct Mi300 accelerator. MI300 is AMD’s first shot at building a true data center/HPC-class APU...
The AMD 2nd Gen EPYC "Rome" Launch Live Blog
The second – and arguably largest – shoe in the Zen 2 launch is dropping today: AMD’s EPYC 7002-series “Rome” processor. Based on all the things that made 3rd...
30 by Ryan Smith on 8/7/2019
Vulnerability in AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization for EPYC: Update Now to Build 22
One of the key elements of building a processor is that designing a secure product involves reducing the ‘attack surface’ as much as possible: the fewer ways an attack...
35 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/26/2019
An Interview with AMD’s Forrest Norrod: Naples, Rome, Milan, & Genoa
There’s no getting away from the fact that AMD’s big revenue potential exists in the server space. While the glitz and the glamor is all about the Ryzen, the...
49 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/24/2019
AMD Zen 2 Microarchitecture Analysis: Ryzen 3000 and EPYC Rome
We have been teased with AMD’s next generation processor products for over a year. The new chiplet design has been heralded as a significant breakthrough in driving performance and...
218 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/10/2019
Spotted at Computex: An AMD EPYC-Based System with 108 Intel Ruler SSDs
Intel’s ‘ruler’ SSD form-factor is meant to maximize density of solid-state storage devices and improve Intel’s competitive positions on two markets: storage and compute. As it turns out, AMD’s...
36 by Anton Shilov on 6/6/2019
Sapphire Shows Off 10-Way GPU Compute System with AMD EPYC 3000
Cryptocurrency mining boom may be over, but there are many applications that can take advantage of GPU compute horsepower besides mining. Sapphire has demonstrated its upcoming GPU compute system...
21 by Anton Shilov on 5/31/2019
Spotted at Computex: Let Bygones be Bygons, with a Sugon Hygon
Big credit to Patrick Kennedy from ServeTheHome for spotting this gem on the show floor, but it looks like if you want a Chinese branded EPYC CPU with some...
58 by Ian Cutress on 5/30/2019
AMD Confirms Zen 4 EPYC Codename, and Elaborates on Frontier Supercomputer CPU
After the Computex Keynote today on stage, where AMD revealed its new Ryzen family of processors coming on 7/7, we had a chance to speak with AMD’s SVP and...
16 by Ian Cutress on 5/27/2019
Amazon AWS Offers Another AMD EPYC-Powered Instance: T3a
Amazon Web Services has further expanded its usage of AMD EPYC-based machines for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. Last week the company started to offer its new EPYC-powered...
19 by Anton Shilov on 5/1/2019
AMD: 7nm ‘Navi’ GPU & 'Rome' CPU to Launch in Q3
Offering a brief update on the state of future products as part of its post-earnings conference call this afternoon, AMD has confirmed that both their upcoming Rome (Zen 2...
38 by Ryan Smith & Anton Shilov on 4/30/2019
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su to Deliver Computex 2019 Lead Keynote
With CES 2019 barely in the mirror behind us, the consumer electronics industry is already barreling towards its next major trade show, Computex 2019 in Taiwan. And, as it...
48 by Ryan Smith on 4/2/2019
Amazon Offers More EPYC: M5ad & R5ad Instances
Amazon Web Services this week started to offer M5ad and R5ad Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances powered by custom AMD EPYC 7000-series processors and featuring faster local storage.
9 by Anton Shilov on 3/29/2019
CES 2019 Question and Answer Session with AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su
One of the major highlights of CES was the reveal of AMD’s next generation Matisse processor. With the cores built on TSMC’s 7nm process, the demonstration of the eight...
60 by Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on 1/29/2019
AMD Pushing the AMD+AMD Strategy with Executive Promotions
Today AMD is announcing some realignment of its executive team along with some promotions. The idea behind the changes boils down to AMD wanting to focus its efforts on...
85 by Ian Cutress on 1/25/2019
AMD Comments on Threadripper 2 Performance and Windows Scheduler
Users may have been following Wendell from Level1Tech’s battle with researching the reasons behind why some benchmarks have regressed performance on quad-die Threadripper 2 compared to dual-die configurations. Through...
42 by Ian Cutress on 1/14/2019
CES 2019: GIGABYTE’s Tower of EPYC
With many enterprise platforms developers have various goals for their software, such as high performance, throughput, storage, or tackling the main issue of the day. It’s one thing to...
11 by Ian Cutress on 1/9/2019
AMD 64-Core Rome Deployment: HLRS ‘Hawk’ at 2.35 GHz
Last week AMD pre-announced its next-generation EPYC processors, code-named Rome. These new processors are set to be officially announced next year, but will feature up to 64 cores using...
30 by Ian Cutress on 11/13/2018
First AMD EPYC Rome Motherboard Spotted
Part of AMD’s recent pre-announcement of its next generation Rome server processors, using 7nm chiplets and running up to 64 cores, is that the new processors will be compatible...
71 by Ian Cutress on 11/13/2018
AMD Launches High-Frequency EPYC 7371 Processor
AMD has announced its new high-frequency EPYC 7371 processor designed for applications that benefit from high clocks. The CPU has 16 cores and is aimed at tasks like electronic...
23 by Anton Shilov on 11/13/2018
Naples, Rome, Milan, Zen 4: An Interview with AMD CTO, Mark Papermaster
At AMD’s Next Horizon event this week, the company disclosed for the first time the layout of its next generation EPYC processor, the new Vega Radeon Instinct datacenter compute...
59 by Ian Cutress on 11/12/2018
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