… Xeon Phi products have always had a much longer cadence than other parts in the consumer or even enterprise -- Intel has refreshed its Xeon processors much more quickly, for example -- and so, it may be thinking long-term about the future of exascale and choosing to take a hit now rather than risk … …
… The company's longer-term goal is to compete in the AI market with a range of equipment, not just Xeons. With Xe not quite ready yet, competing in the HPC space right now means competing with Xeon. …
… AMD always competed well on price when the Opteron family could keep up with its Xeon counterpart, but a 32-core CPU could never be cheap; Intel's 18-core Xeons are 662mm sq, or roughly the size of a high-end GPU on 22nm. …
… Prices were $2.464 per hour for the Graviton2, $2.752 an hour for the first-gen Epyc, and $3.808 for a Cascade Lake Xeon. Anandtech ran the server instances through a series Opens in a new window of memory, latency, and SPEC 2006 and 2017 CPU tests. …
… Although AMD's data center chips have been leading the way in raw performance for a few generations, Intel's Xeon chip lines are well embedded in the enterprise. As the AI industry scrambles for whatever memory and chips it can get, Intel's weaker offerings are still good for the job. …
… 30 for the latest 15-core E7-8890 v2 Xeon , and utterly insane memory bandwidth 230GB/sec vs. …
… The company is working on faster Xeon 28-core CPUs. …
… It launched new low-cost Xeon servers based on Atom to fend off competition from the now-defunct Calxeda several years ago, and it successfully reclaimed virtually all of AMD's server market share. …
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