Ryzen series, AMD’s new generation processors, caused serious problems for Intel for retail, home users, and caused the company’s market share to decrease. Intel said it would follow a more aggressive path and was ready to compete in every segment. Intel has now begun to lose its corporate customers, which it has earned, to AMD. Cloudflare, which is among the internet domain providers and also serves many important sites and platforms, will not use Intel products in new generation VIP systems. Enterprise processor market is mixed One of the main influential markets in the processor market is the host and server market. Shopping at the company level is generally larger and more profitable. For this reason, companies do not want to lose their power in this field. Cloudflare announced that AMD will use the additional socket EPYC 7642 processor for the next generation Gen X server platform. This processor with 48 cores and 96 threads was built on the Zen 2 architecture. The server chip has the standard speed of 2.3 GHz and the highest increased speed of 3.3 GHz. These processors come with 256 MB L3 Cache, PCIe 4.0 support, 8 channel DDR4-3200 memory support. AMD excels in price performance Of course, the only thing that matters to companies is not performance. Price is also of great importance for companies that provide server services. This was the reason why Cloudflare, who compared the yield per dollar he spent, moved away from Intel. According to the statement from Cloudflare, it is stated that the new Gen X servers can meet 36% more requests and are less costly compared to the previous generation Gen 9. In addition, it was stated that while the share of L3 cache error in the new servers was halved, a similar decrease could be seen in NGINX p99 delays. In addition, the processors have 25% lower thermal design power per core thanks to their architecture. Specter and Meltdown also played an influential role in the firm’s decision. Intel’s direct exposure to some issues, such as Meltdown, also revealed another important issue. Cloudflare, by switching to AMD for security and better performance, has also attracted attention.
