AMD today announced a partnership with Tencent, the largest data center operator in China, to provide EPYC processors to the Chinese company for its new Star Lake platform. It is easy to see that this is a great victory for AMD in the server market. Star Lake is the dedicated implementation of Rome’s Tencent. According … Read more
The renowned Internet services company Cloudfare has updated its “Gen 9” servers based on Intel Xeon to new “Gen X” servers based on AMD EPYC, another major achievement for the Reds, who are gradually expanding the market in the field of servers. Instead of two Intel Xeons, Cloudfare now uses a single EPYC with 48 … Read more
Intel introduces a new generation of Xeon processors, also known as “Cascade Lake Refresh”. It features several advances to better compete with the Epyc Rome of its rival AMD. These chips, still based on 14nm etching, play with different parameters to improve their competitiveness. Intel is increasing the number of cores, increasing frequencies and optimizing … Read more
As we have already published news on new AMD machine. Today, AMD Rome EPYC processor, the new 64-core Rome EPYC processor with 128 threads have appeared in an online database, pointing towards the first chips operating at 1.4 GHz base clock and reaching 2.2 GHz. AMD announced earlier this year that the 64-core, 128-thread Rome … Read more
Intel has announced its new “performance-optimized processors per dollar” for its Xeon Scalable platform, which promises users up to 36 percent more performance than the existing second-generation Xeon Gold processors and up to 42 percent more performance per dollar compared to the first-generation Xeon Gold processors. Intel has introduced its new pricing scale for its … Read more
The Zen 2 processors from AMD already offer impressive performance, but that doesn’t mean the Ryzen boom is going to have to stop there. AMD plans to be competitive beyond Zen 2, Zen 3 and Zen 4 architectures in the future, so AMD needs to think big and long when developing Zen 5-based processors. AMD … Read more
An exciting LGA4094 motherboard has been released for AMD’s EPYC processors in ASRock’s arsenal. For the casual observer, ASRock Rack is the elite server division of the popular motherboard brand. ASRock launches a motherboard with 7 PCIe 4.0 slots for EPYC ASRock Rack designed the ROMED8-2T to accommodate the processors EPYC 7001 (Naples) and EPYC … Read more
