Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
by reitzensteinm on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @06:43PM
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Winning a benchmark by a wide margin is pretty close if you have your foot in the door, which of course AMD does not.
Their success here is going to be nonlinear depending on how long they stay in the lead.
Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
by nl on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @10:20PM
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AWS has AMD offerings. That's plenty foot in the door.
Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
by privateSFacct on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @08:59PM
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It's very hard to buy prebuilt AMD products into the enterprise still in my experience
Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
by baroffoos on Thursday December 05, 2019 @12:36AM
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I assume there is a pretty big lag between AMD CPUs being much better and prebuilts including them and businesses noticing they are better.
Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
by 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:27PM
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It’s generally hard to buy AMD CPUs period.
Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
by privateSFacct on Thursday December 05, 2019 @03:08PM
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I can buy lots of AMD CPUs and motherboards online - tons available. But prebuild AMD from Dell? No SKU's. I think it's going to be a MAJOR lag there.
In part this may be because AMD bios stability has historically been poor - perhaps folks don't want the headaches? But intel bios security with ME has also been poor - soo...
Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS
by nine_k on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:57PM
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Last time I visited a Best Buy in NYC, they had a large desk full of AMD-based laptops, several featuring Ryzen.
Maybe they figured availability finally, at least for systems producers.
But exciting times if this flips, competition is good for all