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| AMD delivers the most powerful data center chip |
AMD unveiled its latest data center chips Thursday and announced that it will use the new chips for cloud services from Google, Microsoft and Oracle.
The company's CEO, Lisa Su, said the fourth-generation EPYC processors, codenamed Genoa, will bring significant improvements in performance and power efficiency over previous chips.
These capabilities benefit organizations and cloud data centers, Su said. In turn, it reduces financial expenses, operational costs and total cost of ownership.
The Genoa chip launch comes as US rival Intel, AMD, struggles to ship its latest data center chip, codenamed Sapphire Rapids, to customers in time.
Bob O'Donnell, Technical Analyst, said, "With this next generation, AMD has taken a huge leap in performance, not only when compared to Apple, but also in the growth potential of any AMD-based solution compared to the previous generation. The truth."
AMD, which launched its first EPYC data center chip in 2017, has steadily gained market share from Intel, leading to aggressive forays, particularly among cloud service providers.
AMD's market share of x86 chips used in cloud services grew from zero in 2016 to about 29% last year, according to research firm IDC. Cloud computing and its services are among the largest growth areas in the semiconductor industry.
“IDC expects AMD to stay on the right track and continue to increase market share in public cloud deployments,” said Ashish Nadkarni, Data Center and Cloud Analyst at IDC.