Intel is already losing its grounds to AMD after the Red team’s launch of Ryzen 3000 series CPUs in the desktop CPU market and now this is coming to the server platforms.
Among the top IT companies, Google is one of the biggest and uses a lot of computational resources to operate its various products and services. So the hardware behind all this needs to be strong and flawless.
Google and all other major IT companies still use Intel Xeons chips that are based on the 14nm architecture and is way old which indeed makes it much more vulnerable to hackers. Also, the Intel chips are getting way more expensive even though bearing the same architecture.
On the other hand, AMD’s Zen 2 architecture based on 7nm process is a huge deal especially considering the price at which they are offering the CPUs as well as maintaining great performance.
Already we have major companies like Amazon shifting their servers to AMD platform and now it seems Google is also looking to adopt AMD technology. The new server ends AMD EPYC Rome CPUs with up to 64 cores 128 threads already tops the performance chart.
Google is planning big this year with the launch of Google Stadia whose hardware is powered by Intel Xeons and AMD Radeon Vega graphics. Now, shredding off the costly Xeon platform with the cheaper and effective AMD Server CPUs would be the right decision for them.
Already the world’s fastest Super Computer is going to be built using Zen 2 architecture and AMD deserves to be bragged about it. Costing up to $10K these CPUs provide immense performance compared to the costly Intel counterparts.
According to Lynx Equity analysts, Google seems to ditch the Xeon chips which they used for their Data Centers and Servers in the coming days. This will be a huge deal for AMD and with this lead, we can expect more and more data-centric companies shifting their grounds to AMD.
Well, Google might not totally shift to AMD as for now but yes they can test on some of their systems. The main advantage of using these CPUs is the cost, Intel claims their Cascade Lake-AP chip packing 56 cores can give comparable performance to AMD’s but they cost around $40-50K which is almost 4-5 times the price of AMD.
With multiple-socket systems, server-end platforms can leverage more than 200 cores and 400 threads which is a pretty big deal. AMD is also on track with its next-gen Milan and Genoa server-end CPUs which is important if Intel finally leverages 10nm Ice Lake CPUs next year.
As for now, this seems to be a rumour and the validity of it will be judged in the coming days.
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