Tencent will mount its new Star Lake servers with AMD EPYC Rome processors

Important agreement between AMD and Tencent to develop servers for the Chinese company based on EPYC Rome @ 7nm processors

Announced by AMD that it has developed a new partnership, in this case with Tencent. This company is the largest supplier of games and other systems in China. EPYC Rome @ 7nm processors will be used for these new servers. So the EPYC Rome will serve to give life to the new “Star Lake server platform” that Tencent is developing.

Tencent indicates that the Star Lake servers have been developed to use EPYC Rome processors. This gives them greater energy efficiency, achieving up to 50% load with the use of "advanced thermosyphon heat dissipation technology". It is not known what this company's proprietary cooling system actually is.

EPYC Rome for the new Tencent servers

The processor that will be integrated into these new systems has not been specified. Everything makes you think which will be the AMD EPYC 7H12, which is characterized by having 64 cores and 128 threads. Perhaps it is another processor, since the end use of these new servers has not been said either. What is certain is that this is great news for AMD, which will sell EPYC processors like hotcakes.

According to Tencent, these new systems offer a 35% improvement over their current servers. They also highlight that in specific tasks such as 'queries per second' (QPS) the performance improvement will be up to 150%.

The company has also said that the Roma can "meet 98% of Tencent's cloud application scenarios." A hit for AMD, since the Chinese company would have over 1.1 million servers and they only have to expand this amount.

Who has to worry and not little is Intel. Although the company has registered the best quarter in its history, a stroke of luck is for anyone. 

Source: TH