Semiaccurate seems really negative INTC. Not sure if that’s just marketing speak to get more subscribers.
I do believe that Krzanich was probably fired for inadequate response to EYPC. Though at this point INTC has known about AMD aiming for Data Center with a better product for > 2 years. Hard to believe that it will take 4 more years for a response – That’s basically 2 generations of processors worth of time.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12084/epyc-benchmarks-by-intel-our-analysis-
This sounds a little more realistic. “First of all, Intel’s benchmarks lend further support to what we already suspected: Intel’s Scalable Xeon is better at serving databases for a number of reasons: better data locality (fewer NUMA nodes), better single-threaded performance, and a more “useable” cache. ”
“The AMD EPYC has a performance per dollar advantage in webserving and Java servers, for example… he EPYC platform has some catching up to do. Firmware updates and other software updates were necessary to run a hypervisor, and only relatively recent versions of the Linux kernel (February 2017 w/4.10+) have support for the EPYC processor.”
I suspect AMD has a free run for 12-18 months. At that point, it would be shocking if INTC didn’t have a real response to the EPYC architecture. The only question is how much speculators will run up the shares before then.
