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Re:AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchm... by HelloNurse on Thursday August 08, 2019 @09:51AM (#20644523)
Paying more for lower performance and higher TDP isn't a "chance".

Very conservative corporate customers could wait a short time for good BIOS corrections and sufficient supply for all the parts (not only CPUs) they need before shopping for AMD servers, but they would be buying different hardware from the same established suppliers even if they went with Intel.

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Re:AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchm... by TomVDB on Thursday August 08, 2019 @03:34PM (#20647813)
> Very conservative corporate customers could wait a short time for good BIOS corrections ...

That sentence above is a contradiction in terms.

A conservative corporate customers spends many months to do evaluations. There is no such thing as “a short time.”

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Re:AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchm... by magashna on Thursday August 08, 2019 @10:12AM (#20644746)
No one has ever been fired for buying Intel. Management often doesn't want to chance it on the underdog when they could keep everything the same
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