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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.