AMD held its Accelerated Data Center Keynote address by CEO Dr Lisa Su today. The company made some big announcements for the enterprise space in this first major series of announcements by AMD after Intel’s launch of its Alder Lake 12th Gen Core processors that set the tone for what’s to come from Intel in the enterprise space (Xeon "Sapphire Rapids"). First up is the EPYC "Milan-X" line of server processors leveraging 3D Infinity Cache memory, a tripling in L3 cache amount, which the company claims significantly improves performance of memory-intensive applications. This should also give you an idea if any upcoming Ryzen desktop processor based on the refreshed chiplet could live up to its claim of "up to 15% gaming performance boost." The next-generation Instinct MI200 series GPU compute accelerators are equally important as they bring the CDNA2 compute architecture to market, establishing competition to NVIDIA’s A-series Tensor Core processors, and Intel’s upcoming "Ponte Vecchio" Xe-HPC accelerators.
