Cloudflare’s New Gen-X Servers Ditch Intel’s Xeon Platinum Processors for AMD’s EPYC 7642 CPU

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AMD has won itself another huge customer with its second-generation lineup of EPYC 7002-series processors.



In a blog post published today, Cloudflare announced that it had switched entirely to AMD hardware for “Gen X” – its latest generation of servers. The content delivery services provider had previously used Intel CPU-based servers, but it’s making the switch to 48-core EPYC 7642 chips to optimize costs and avoid vulnerabilities such as Spectre and Meltdown.



“Notably, Intel is not inside. We are not using their hardware for any major server components such as the CPU, board, memory, storage, network interface card (or any type of accelerator),” Cloudflare shared. “This time, AMD is...

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[Grimlakin]

That is huge and telling. I'd love to see what they order on second wave or third wave hardware refreshes. They probably refresh based on generation and most big datacenters have 2-3 generations living within them.