Neowin News Feed for: Epyc

AMD's record Q2 profits tanked by US export controls fallout

Paul Hill — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 04:12:01 +0000

AMD has released its second quarter earnings for 2025. The company's finances were hit by US export controls against China. Read more...

Azure gets two next-gen VMs leveraging AMD's latest 4th gen EPYC processors

Hamza Jawad — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 22:16:02 +0000

The two new virtual machines are aimed towards Azure HPC customers, promising cost efficiency as well as higher performance. Dubbed HX and HBv4, the new series' leverage AMD's latest processors. Read more...

AMD unveils its third-gen EPYC server CPUs with Zen 3 cores

João Carrasqueira — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 17:00:01 +0000

As promised, AMD today took the wraps off its third-generation EPYC CPUs for servers. Among them, the new EPYC 7763 promises to be the world's fastest server CPU, with 64 cores and 128 threads. Read more...

AMD announces record Q3 2020 earnings, revenue up 45% to $2.8 billion

Abhay V — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:42:01 +0000

AMD today announced its earnings for Q3 2020, reporting $2.8 billion in revenue, a 45% increase over Q2. Strong Ryzen and EPYC processor sales led to a 148% increase in net income this quarter. Read more...

Amazon EC2 C5a Instances with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors now generally available

Ather Fawaz — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 07:04:01 +0000

The AMD-powered C5a instances offer high performance while consuming 10% less cost compared to its competitors. They come in eight sizes and are generally available starting today. Read more...

AMD adds three new EPYC processors to the lineup, promising higher performance per core

João Carrasqueira — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 19:16:01 +0000

AMD has introduced a handful of new processors aimed at the server market with up to 24 cores and 48 threads, promising the highest performance per core of any server CPU on the market. Read more...

AMD adds EPYC 7662 & 7532 to its processor portfolio

Paul Hill — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:16:01 +0000

AMD has launched two new EPYC processors; the AMD EPYC 7662 and the AMD EPYC 7532. They're available in Dell and Supermicro servers with HPE and Lenovo launching products in the coming months. Read more...

Microsoft refreshes its range of Azure virtual machine offerings

Boyd Chan — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:00:09 +0000

With virtual computing solutions targeting a variety of workloads such as enterprise applications, visualization, and machine learning, Microsoft has announced updates to its Azure VM solutions. Read more...

AMD now previewing Zen 2 based on the 7nm process, EPYC comes to AWS

Florin Bodnarescu — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 19:54:02 +0000

At its Next Horizon event, AMD shared a few details about its upcoming Zen 2 7nm process micro architecture. Among others, the firm also announced the availability of EPYC CPUs for Amazon EC2. Read more...

Microsoft becomes the first to add AMD EPYC support with its new Azure VMs

Florin Bodnarescu — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 17:32:02 +0000

The software giant has announced a preview of its Lv2-series Azure virtual machines which support AMD's EPYC processors. Specifically, the one highlighted is the dual-socket EPYC 7551. Read more...

AMD defends its EPYC processor from a barrage of insults from Intel

Dreyer Smit — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:32:01 +0000

The war of words has begun between the two chipmakers after Intel called the AMD EPYC processor 'glued together and inconsistent'. AMD didn't take this lying down, responding in a recent presentation. Read more...

Intel calls AMD Epyc server processors 'glued together and inconsistent' during presentation

Dreyer Smit — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 08:48:01 +0000

During a presentation promoting their new line of Server processors, Intel took shots at the new line of hardware from AMD and didn't mince words when it comes to its opinion of its biggest rival. Read more...