A recent DRAMeXchange report has shown that AMD has succeeded in increasing its market share in the server segment by up to 2%. Compared to 1% a few months ago, the figures may not be very high, but given that the server market itself is a multi-million dollar industry, these digit gains could make millions of dollars in revenue, which would be a good boost for AMD, as they were virtually absent from the server market before the launch of EPYC processors.
Against this background, AMD expects them to achieve a 5% market share in servers by 2019, largely due to the introduction of AMD EPYC ‘Rome’ processors in 7 nm production.
The report notes that the x86 architecture remains the dominant choice for server CPUs and that the only two giants covering this market are Intel and AMD. Although Intel is at a very different level, AMD was once very competitive in this area, but its Opteron line could not compete with Intel’s server offerings.
With the EPYC Naples, AMD was able to shake the market with outstanding performance and energy efficiency at competitive prices, but could not manage Intel’s efforts and marketing in the server room a decade ago. AMD is now introducing its second line of EPYC processors, called Rome, based on the 7nm process. These are the first server room CPUs to use the 7nm process node, which includes 64 cores and 128 threads, exceeding the number of cores of Intel’s best proposal.
With EPYC ‘Rome’, AMD wants to double or triple its presence in the server segment, for the first time in many years.