06-21-2017, 08:59 PM
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-epy...34833.html
Quote:AMD has identified the single-socket server as a potential high-growth market. Roughly 25% of two-socket servers have only one socket populated, so offering a capable single-socket platform reduces unnecessary redundancies (such as sockets, networking components, and power supplies), thus saving on up-front cost, power, space, and cooling expenses. AMD feels it has an advantage in this burgeoning space due to EPYC's hefty allotment of I/O, memory bandwidth, and memory capacity. As such, the company created three single-socket SKUs that feature the same connectivity options and a TDP range of 155W-180W. We also noticed that the highest frequency of the lineup was at 2.4GHz on the 7351P.
Again, these value comparisons are derived from a data set that AMD adjusted to remove what it considers an unfair advantage.
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What use is all of the fancy technology if it isn't secure? Well...none. To that end, AMD has a robust set of security features that are all controlled by a sandboxed ARM processor on the SoC package. This separates the security apparatus from the host operating system/hypervisor and provides hardware-based memory encryption, which is useful in multi-tenancy environments, among other features.
AMD's re-entrance into the server market brings about understandable concerns about the ecosystem. At the end of the day, most will purchase systems from OEM providers, and administrators expect rock-solid support with enterprise-class applications. AMD's been hard at work on the enablement front and has amassed a solid set of launch partners for both hardware and software.
AMD has also developed a robust set of features that should further its objectives in the data center. The company noted that it designed the architecture from the ground up for data center workloads, which isn't a surprising admission. AMD's reentrance into the server market will be a long process, which company representatives have repeatedly acknowledged, but it does look promising.
Four of the high-end SKUs, along with several OEM systems, are available today. The remainder of the product stack, and further expansion of OEM's servers, comes in July.