Intel And AMD’s Biggest Cloud Threat May Be An Open X86 Instruction Set
Well over 90% of cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) instance types are based on Intel Xeon processors. Will AMD EPYC processors take significant cloud market share from Intel, or will some other server processor give both AMD and Intel substantial competition in the cloud? Intel and AMD took over the server processor market in the mid-2000s. This…