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Re:AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong ... by InTheArena on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @11:36AM (#16275129)
AMD is in a great place at the moment - but we need to see what the smaller Zen cores coming this year can do, and what the Zen 2 release next year look like. If they have solid, significant improvements, it means that AMD is set for a bit, and can really compete and take marketshare from Intel.

Better yet, I am really hopeful about Epyc - it still doesn't seem to be shipping in huge numbers, but as someone really burned by Meltdown, it seems like perfect timing for AMD to compete.

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Re:AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong ... by lawrenceyan on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @01:51PM (#16276414)
If you don't mind me asking, in what capacity were you affected by the Intel Meltdown exploits? Was it an issue in terms of security, performance, etc?
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Re:AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong ... by e1ven on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @02:11PM (#16276597)
Not OP, but I personally was pretty heavily affected - I run Robohash.org, which runs off a bunch of Digital Ocean droplets.

I needed to fire up ~ 30% additional nodes after they did their migration.

I didn't measure as carefully as I could have, but the existing nodes couldn't keep up with demand after the upgrade.

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Re:AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong ... by InTheArena on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @04:36PM (#16277747)
Database performance dropped badly, and we had to increase the number of database servers.
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