To regain lost market share in servers, AMD wants to attack hard with the AMD EPYC Rome, solutions that will steal market share from Intel.
Processors for servers were monopolized by Intel, since AMD, until the AMD EPYC arrived, had nothing to compete with Intel solutions. The EPYC offer competition, not so much in performance, but in price, offering a good quality / price ratio. From the Opteron, only the Xeon were available and now 99.9% of the market is Intel, despite the fact that the company itself recognizes that it could lose up to 20% of share, going to control 80% of the market.
AMD EPYC will undergo a revamp that will put Intel on the ropes.
They are aware in AMD, that they cannot sleep and they would already be in development of new second generation EPYC processors, for 2019. During Computex, the company has announced the EPYC Rome, the second generation of EPYC processors, which will arrive during this second half of the year, to the company laboratory and will be based on the 7nm manufacturing process.
Lisa Su, during the event, who had already had one of these processors in her hands. As is logical, they are still finishing polishing these processors, and for now, they are only in the laboratory, to see how they perform and polish them. The idea is that they reach 2019, something quite feasible for the company.
Rome, which are the next family of EPYC processors, will arrive in 7nm and would be based on Zen 2, but the company is already beginning the development of Milan, which will be designed in 7nm + and in this case would be based on Zen cores 3. AMD has also commented that they plan to develop processors with Zen 4 and Zen 5 architecture, but these would be after 2020 and possibly with a new socket.
Source: wccftech
