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Re:AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchm... by positr0n on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @09:55PM (#20641128)
There are many small and large companies with relatively small compute needs (small meaning the own a small datacenter or two). Lots of the code they are running is _extremely_ legacy, and it may or may not be in their risk tolerance to switch vendors to save a hundred grand a year on CPU costs. Especially if they think like OP and believe Intel will match them again in just a few more years. Why rock the boat?
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Re:AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchm... by ken47 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:08PM (#20641187)
Of course such decisions are always political. But now with Google backing EPYC Rome, there is the political risk of not switching, and finding yourself in the Stone Age 5 years from now.

There's a lot more incentive to explore EPYC than there was a day ago.

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Re:AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchm... by TomVDB on Thursday August 08, 2019 @08:13AM (#20643755)
What if Google did not include that very old legacy code during their evaluation process?

And exactly what kind of risk are you taking about?

If switching is as easy as you claim it is, you can still do so next year or the year after.

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Re:AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchm... by ta0943007 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @11:34PM (#20641618)
AMD's marketing department has addressed this point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrJbT7AqcD0
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