What that means for enterprises and for cloud data centers is that it translates into lower capex, lower opex and lower total cost of ownership
Latest data center chip was launched by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Thursday and said Microsoft Corp’s Azure, Alphabet-owned Google Cloud and Oracle Corp would be some of its customers.
Compared with its previous chip, the fourth generation EPYC processor, code named “Genoa”, makes significant improvement on performance and energy efficiency, said Chief Executive Lisa Su.
“What that means for enterprises and for cloud data centers is that it translates into lower capex, lower opex and lower total cost of ownership,” she said.
Mirroring the rise in peers such as Nvidia Corp which gained over 13% on signs of cooling inflation, shares of AMD soared about 14%. The Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index surged 8.7%.
Genoa launches at a time when rival Intel Corp’s latest data center chip, code named Sapphire Rapids, has struggled with delays.
With this latest generation, they (AMD) have made a huge leap in performance not only against Intel, but against their previous generation… so that makes the viability of an AMD-based solution much more real,” said Bob O’Donnell, an analyst for TECHnalysis Research.
Making especially strong inroads with cloud service providers, AMD, which launched its first EPYC data center chip in 2017, has been steadily gaining market share at the expense of Intel. According to research firm IDC, AMD’s market share of chips, which are built on the x86 architecture and used by cloud services, went from zero in 2016 to about 29% last year. Cloud is one of the biggest growth areas for semiconductors.
“IDC expects AMD will stay on track, continue building up market share in public cloud deployments,” said Ashish Nadkarni, data center and cloud analyst at IDC.
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