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Re:AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371 by JackFaker on Friday December 07, 2018 @01:50PM (#18630385)
STH previously reported that Intel began offering Xeon discounts to smaller organizations that asked for AMD EPYC price quotes.

https://www.servethehome.com/intel-is-serving-major-xeon-dis...

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Re:AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371 by selectodude on Friday December 07, 2018 @03:34PM (#18631359)
That's a niche market. Intel has the larger players by the balls. Very few companies are comparison shopping AMD vs Intel.
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Re:AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371 by jburgess777 on Friday December 07, 2018 @07:39PM (#18633009)
You say that, but AWS has still launched EC2 instances with both AMD and ARM CPU cores recently. I imagine Amazon buy enough Intel CPUs for them to take notice.
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Re:AMD’s aggressive pricing update on the EPYC 7371 by Nexxxeh on Friday December 07, 2018 @08:25PM (#18633242)
I wonder if the primary driver for buying and offering alternative platforms for EC2 instances was to send Intel a message. "We aren't afraid to go to AMD if you don't make your offering more competitive."
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