I just spent a month upgrading a bunch of cloud servers to AMD EPYC, and it was such a nostalgic feeling to be able to speed up systems with a simple, risk-free hardware upgrade.
Remember those days? When every server upgrade magically sped up everything by a factor of two or three? The stop button was pressed on that wonderful time for about a decade, but what seemed like an end of an era wasn't. It was just a pause, and now we're playing with ever faster tin once again.
It feels almost strange for that era of ever increasing hardware speed to make such a forceful comeback after having been stuck at Intel 14nm in the server space for years. The upgrades to 7nm AMD are already pretty impressive. I hear good things about Apple's 5nm laptop chips. Server chips on 3nm should blow everyone's frigging minds.
Remember those days? When every server upgrade magically sped up everything by a factor of two or three? The stop button was pressed on that wonderful time for about a decade, but what seemed like an end of an era wasn't. It was just a pause, and now we're playing with ever faster tin once again.
It feels almost strange for that era of ever increasing hardware speed to make such a forceful comeback after having been stuck at Intel 14nm in the server space for years. The upgrades to 7nm AMD are already pretty impressive. I hear good things about Apple's 5nm laptop chips. Server chips on 3nm should blow everyone's frigging minds.
Exciting times!