AMD Celebrates EPYC Processor Series One Year Anniversary

By Nathan Kirsch

One year ago, AMD launched the EPYC processor series and added another CPU option for the datacenter. EPYC brought more cores to dual and single socket configurations, with up to 32 high-performance Zen cores, 8 memory channels and 128 lanes of PCIe available on all EPYC processors. Happy first birthday EPYC and we can’t wait to see what you do with the next-generation, 7nm AMD EPYC processor series called Rome that is due in 2019!

AMD EPYC One Year Anniversary

Highlights: A Year of AMD EPYC Momentum:

  • June 17: The AMD EPYC 7000 series processor launched
  • August 17: Tencent and JD.com make AMD EPYC datacenter commitments
  • November 17: The AMD EPYC-based HPE Gen10 DL-385 set world records in both SPECrate2017_fp_base and SPECfp_rate2006
  • December 17: Microsoft Azure became the first global cloud customer of AMD EPYC and Baidu announced immediate availability of AMD EPYC processors in its ABC systems
  • February 18: Dell EMC launched single- and dual-socket solutions with the PowerEdge R6415, R7415 and R7425
  • April 18: Cray integrated AMD EPYC processors in its new CS500 product line
  • June 18: Cisco, HPE, and Tencent expanded AMD EPYC-based offerings
  • June 18: At COMPUTEX, Lisa Su provided a peek into the next-generation 7nm AMD EPYC processor, codenamed Rome, currently running in AMD labs