AMD's Fortunes Are Improving

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AMD's EPYC Rome CPUs have slowly chewed away market share from Intel's data center processors, and according to a new report from industry bean counter IDC, AMD-powered servers grew by 112.4% year-over-year. Meanwhile, ARM processors are also stealing away sockets from competing x86 chips at a quickening rate with a 430.5% yearly growth, albeit with the caveat that though the nascent ARM ecosystem stills represents a small portion of the market.
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The most interesting tidbits from the report come from the firm's calculations for Intel's competitors. Despite Intel's commanding lead in the server market, currently pegged at 93.4% of single- and dual-socket servers by Mercury Research, AMD's server chips continue to experience an accelerating adoption rate on the strength of the company's EPYC Rome processors.
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AMD recently told us that it is on track for volume production this quarter, and shipments are headed to select cloud service providers and HPC customers. The public launch, which will mark the arrival of Milan for OEM and ODM systems, is slated for Q1, 2021. The Milan processors will square off with Intel's Ice Lake chips, which debut in a similar time frame.