AMD EPYC CPUs, A POTENTIAL GAME CHANGER FOR AMD IN AI AND DATACENTER MARKET

EPYC Was Endorsed by Microsoft, HPE, Dell EMC, Baidu, Asus, Boxx, Gygabytes and more in SC17

Now more than two month after the SC17 where supercomputers and AI where at the center of attention AMD just got the deal with Baidu to feed their servers and datacenter supercomputers with epyc CPU it just happened after Microsoft chose to go with epyc on its own servers and cloud services. Both of these two companies did make statements and mentioned during the SC17 that AMD Epyc is probably going to be their choice for system upgrades and next datacenters. the interesting fact is that these two were not the only ones that made positive statements about EPYC in SC17. As we have reported earlier HPE, Dell, Asus, Boxx, Gygabytes, Penguin Computing and EchoStreams were also among the companies that showed interest in EPYC based systems. Now that we have seen Microsoft and Baidu has managed to make themselves the first ones to make EPYC based servers and recently the rumors around Amazon moving to Epyc systems it is getting much easier to imagine all the other potential costumers of EPYC that have already shown interest in sc17 actually come to AMD asking for EPYC CPUs in 2018.

This is happening while we are at the beginning of the rise of AI industry. Forbs reported earlier if AMD could get only 10% of the AI market, it could increase its value to up to 25%. This shows how a huge 30 Billion market like AI in the next 4 years has the potential to cause a lot of upside to AMD.

AMD earlier reported the following companies are now offering AMD EPYC products or AMD EPYC-based systems:

  • OEM/ODM – Asus, Gigabyte, HPE, Supermicro, Tyan
  • Distributors – ASI Computer Technologies, Tech Data
  • Systems Integrators – AMAX, Boston, Boxx, Clustervision, E4, EchoStreams, Equus / ServersDirect, ICC, Koi, Megware, NEC, Penguin, Silicon Mechanics

Dell EMC in SC17 “Our next generation of PowerEdge servers are the bedrock of the modern datacenter that are designed to maximize business scalability and intelligent automation with integrated security. The combination of PowerEdge and the AMD EPYC performance and security capabilities will create unique compute solutions for our customers to accelerate workloads and protect their business.” said Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, president, server solutions division at Dell EMC,

ASUS in SC17 “As one of the first companies to introduce AMD EPYC-based servers, ASUS understands the need for platforms that can scale to meet the performance and power requirements of data-intensive HPC and virtualization applications,” said Robert Chin, head of ASUS Server business unit.

BOXX in SC17  “Now we’re applying that same expertise to advanced, multi-GPU compute solutions for deep learning. With AMD EPYC server processors, we can significantly boost performance, power and memory to drive advancements in data mining, natural language processing, image recognition, and security.”said Shoaib Mohammad, BOXX vice president of marketing and business development.

GIGABYTE Technology in SC17  “GIGABYTE Technology is a key go-to-market partner for delivering EPYC processor- based server platforms, offering customers a mature ecosystem, industry-transforming hardware design and serious compute, memory, I/O and power for complex HPC computations,” said Daniel Hou, vice president, research & development, GIGABYTE Technology.

HPE in SC17 “As the world leader in supercomputers and high performance computing, we are committed to delivering solutions to customers with highly complicated workloads, and AMD delivers the power, density and scalability to help break barriers.”said Justin Hotard, vice president and general manager, Volume Global Business Unit, HPE.

AMD EPYC & INSTINCT - Credit AMD

AMD EPYC & INSTINCT – Credit AMD

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