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How Did AMD Boost Adoption of EPYC Server CPU?

Paige Tanner
Updated
How Did AMD Boost Adoption of EPYC Server CPU?

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) developed an EPYC server CPU (central processing unit) that offered a better price-to-performance ratio than Intel’s (INTC) Xeon server CPUs. Thus, it targeted cloud companies, as they easily adopt new platforms and they order in bulk, as they have large data centers. AMD achieved success in deploying its EPYC with Chinese (FXI) cloud companies like Baidu (BIDU) and Tencent and other cloud providers like Microsoft (MSFT) Azure, Hivelocity, and Packet. EPYC also got adopted in the supercomputing and high computing market.

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