Tag Archives: RISC-V

Read Time: 4 minutes read - Author: Liftr Insights

Liftr Look Ahead: Compute Chips – Intel and AMD’s Biggest Cloud Threat

Weekly NewsBy Liftr Insights October 22, 2019 Leave a comment

Liftr Look Ahead: Compute Chips – Intel and AMD’s Biggest Cloud Threat What is the Topic? Today, our Liftr Cloud Components Tracker data shows that well over 90% of 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…

Intel And AMD’s Biggest Cloud Threat May Be An Open X86 Instruction Set

Forbes ArticlesBy Paul Teich October 21, 2019 Leave a comment

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…