High-frequency solution for key industries. AMD is making inexorable process in the server through successive generations of EPYC processors. Second-generation models now proliferate the market at price points between $450 and $7,000. Built on the Rome architecture and touting double the number of cores and threads compared to the first generation, along with a healthy dollop of extra performance from the improved Zen 2 architecture, there's an EPYC solution for practically every Intel Xeon available.

And AMD is making hay while Intel stutters in execution. The latest slew of Rome chips and associated SP3 platform is strong on all fronts - compute, memory bandwidth, expansion capabilities, value - whilst Xeon is still on the old(er) Cascade Lake architecture. Even the interim architecture, codenamed Cooper Lake, is now only available to the biggest of customers.