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Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by brianwawok on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @06:13PM (#21708209)
Winning a benchmark isn’t winning. Winning sales is winning. Last I heard most sales still go to intel.

But exciting times if this flips, competition is good for all

Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by reitzensteinm on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @06:43PM (#21708388)
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 (#21709687)
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 (#21709304)
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 (#21710228)
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 (#21709982)
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 (#21715958)
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 (#21710094)
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.

Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by shaklee3 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @12:57AM (#21710294)
They're probably speaking about epyc. In general, the availability of epyc, and the number of servers made for it, are very small.
Re:Coming Soon: AWS Graviton2 Processor for AWS by topicseed on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @06:43PM (#21708390)
True, but these things take time to move mostly due to time-constrained contracts.