At this rate Intel, as we know it, will cease to exist in 2-3 years.
Yeah, it looks like it might be called "Qualcomm". I really hope not because it would be better for all of us if Intel just reformed its terrible corporate culture. The last thing we need is more market consolidation because that's giving rise to corporations so big that they lose all of their efficiency and gain too much political power.
I am glad that all the great work at AMD is now paying for itself and generating as much or more revenue in the datacenter market as Intel does with its history of morally doubtful business practices.
Well, I personally take pride in AMD's success because I was one of the relatively few who bought Phenom II and FX along with a litany of Radeons (2×HD 4870, 2×HD 7970, 2×R9 Fury, RX 5700 XT, RX 6800 XT, RX 7900 XTX). It's consumers like me who didn't believe in overspending on products just because they said "Intel" or "nVIDIA" on them who kept AMD afloat during the dark years.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no martyr. I didn't feel like I suffered one bit during those years because my gaming needs were met perfectly (and at a much lower cost).
Of course, as the article mentions, not all is roses, though, as nVidia is clearly showing where the really big revenues are coming from: the (AI)-compute GPU market. To my knowledge, AMD does have decent AI-GPU accelerator cards that may or may not (I think the latter is true) outperform nVidias latest and greatest but that still will find many pockets willing to pay for them as nVidia is either too expensive or just cannot entirely deliver the huge numbers of cards the AI-market demands.
Well, it's not like Radeon isn't doing anything because when El Capitan goes online, the two most powerful supercomputers on planet Earth (El Capitan and Summit) will have EPYC CPUs coupled with Radeon Instinct GPUs.
Now, AMD only needs to actively and massively support developers with impeccable documentation, technical support, and easy to use developer tools for their AI-compute GPUs. Then, and only then, it may sorten the gap to nVidia.
I agree. The problem is that with nVidia's market share, most devs would rather their games be optimised for nVidia because that would be the lion's share of consumers. To them, Radeons only represent like ¼ of the gaming community.
While Intel's Xeon CPUs still power the majority of servers, the most expensive machines now use AMD's EPYC processors.
Yup. Frontier uses EPYC and Radeon Instinct and so too will El Capitan.
The title of the article is AMD Outsells Intel in the datacenter space. The article says that "Intel still powers the majority of servers" but that "the most expensive machines now use AMD". So what specific space is AMD outselling Intel? GPU enabled servers but not standard servers? Don't get me wrong, we have AMD Gen3 and Gen4 and are looking at 5 for the next order. However, the article does not state in what space AMD is outselling Intel.
Just because AMD is outselling Intel doesn't mean that the Intel-based servers that were already sold cease to exist. Intel had a massive lead in marketshare in the data centre space and it's going to take a while for AMD to reach market parity in extant systems. The article says that AMD data centre parts are now outselling Intel's and that is objectively true. Since this wasn't true in the past, the majority of severs out there are still Intel.
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram