AMD’s server platform launch event this week in Austin, TX was indeed EPYC in more ways than one. OEM partners at the event noted that AMD EPYC-based systems will ship in market in the second half of this year. How much share AMD will take is the $64,000 question but Intel’s lucrative Data Center group is the company’s high profit cash cow. If AMD is able to chip off even 10% share it could mean billions in new, high-margin business for the company. Here’s a quick video demo of some AMD EPYC server benchmarking at the event.

Source: Forbes June 23, 2017 21:09 UTC