06-22-2017, 01:22 AM
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/...ure/8.html
Quote:AMD has robust industry relations with the game-console manufacturers and has monopolized semi-custom SoC manufacturing for that market segment. It also pushed the software industry for favorable yet open standards, which its client hardware is inherently good at. The company must now direct its efforts towards building similar industry relationships with the most popular server OEMs, who not only make products based on EPYC, but also allocate their own marketing budgets to promoting EPYC-powered solutions to their longstanding or prospective customers. The onus is also on AMD to ensure that EPYC chips live up to the reliability standards the industry has come to expect of competing Xeon chips, and to provide a robust after-sales support net to customers.
AMD must also nurture a vibrant ecosystem built around EPYC, which includes not just hardware and OEMs marketing them, but also the matter of pioneering software standards in the enterprise segment. This must include not just open- and open-source standards, but proprietary ones from the likes of Microsoft or Novell. Fortune 500 companies need to know that EPYC-powered machines can be relied upon to power their businesses. AMD should also build the brand in the high-performance compute (HPC) arena with turnkey solutions that combine its enviable GPGPU leadership with its homebrew EPYC processors. We're inclined to think NVIDIA isn't fooling around by investing billions of dollars into machine-learning, and AMD is in a position to combine its CPU, GPU, and software resources into uniform and reliable solutions driven by open standards. The PC and server CPU industry dominated by Intel is finally getting a much needed shakedown, and it will only benefit the industry at large.