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Cloud Service Provider Support

Bloomberg

“At Bloomberg, we handle the flow of information for professionals in the capital markets. We look forward to AMD’s leadership in the open standards communities, such as OCP, NVMe, GenZ, and CCIX, to help accelerate the industry-wide adoption of these innovative data center, storage, and interconnect solutions,” said Justin Erenkrantz, head of compute architecture for Bloomberg, the global finance, media and tech company based in New York City. “With higher density and lower latency NVMe storage a primary feature delivered by the AMD EPYC processor, we fully expect to realize the next level of performance and cost efficiency.”

Dropbox

“Dropbox customers expect fast, reliable access to the content they ask us to manage for them and EPYC delivers on those requirements. We have worked closely with AMD during our evaluation of EPYC in our environment and see significant potential in lowering total-cost-of-ownership while improving performance in single-socket designs," said Akhil Gupta, vice president of infrastructure at Dropbox. "Our evaluation systems take advantage of the industry-leading 128 lanes of PCIe on EPYC for storage performance and capacity. Dropbox is exploring deployment options for EPYC later this year, and I believe the future looks bright for the relationship with AMD and EPYC.”

LexisNexis

At LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, we believe in the power of data and advanced analytics for better risk management. As a trusted data analytics provider for organizations seeking actionable insights to manage risks and improve results while upholding the highest standards for security and privacy,” said Flavio Villanustre, vice president, Technology, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, RELX Group. “LexisNexis processes more than 90 million transactions per hour with HPCC Systems®, a proven, open source solution for Big Data. LexisNexis Risk Solutions and AMD have teamed up to optimize the HPCC Systems platform to take advantage of the benefits of thread density, core performance, memory bandwidth and the industry leading 128 lanes of PCIe per socket of the AMD EPYC processor.”

OEM / ODM Support

ASUS

“We recognized early on the significant performance and scalability potential of EPYC for a number of ASUS platforms spanning HPC and virtualization workloads,” said Robert Chin, head of ASUS Server business unit. “As a longtime AMD technology partner, we are thrilled to design EPYC-based products that will transform the datacenter experience and TCO for our customers.”

Gigabyte Technology

"GIGABYTE Technology is committed to pushing design boundaries in the enterprise server market, and with the AMD EPYC CPU we can take the customer experience to the next level with a single socket solution,” said Daniel Hou, vice president, Research & Development, GIGABYTE Technology. “By packing increased performance, memory bandwidth and I/O into a smaller footprint, EPYC will enable us to expand our portfolio and address channel partners and system integrators in new target markets.”

Inventec

“Inventec is dedicated to driving innovation in a number of industries by combining AMD CPU and GPU technologies on our platforms, and AMD is a key technology partner for Inventec in the cloud datacenter market,” said Jack Tsai, general manager of Inventec EBG. “By integrating the new EPYC CPU into our server portfolio, we can provide a more competitive, scalable and higher performance solution to our worldwide datacenter customers.”

Lenovo

“The AMD EPYC processors present unique opportunities for our customers to lower Total Cost of Ownership via an unprecedented balance of cores, memory bandwidth, and I/O.  We are excited to collaborate with AMD and several global Hyperscale customers to develop and deploy single socket and dual socket EPYC-based servers,” said Paul Ju, vice president and general manager, Lenovo Global Hyperscale Business.

Supermicro

“Supermicro’s new generation of server solutions supporting AMD EPYC processors will unlock many opportunities for datacenter customers to leverage these innovative platforms,” said Don Clegg, vice president of Marketing and Business Development at Supermicro. “AMD EPYC processors with more cores, more memory bandwidth, and more I/O integrate effortlessly with our Supermicro application-optimized platforms to provide leadership performance per-watt and per-dollar to optimize data center TCO. We are delighted to embrace this opportunity to strengthen and grow our mutually productive technology partnership with AMD.”

Tyan

“Tyan has a long history of supporting AMD, and we are excited about the impact the company’s return to the datacenter market will have on our customers,” said Danny Hsu, vice president of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation's TYAN Business Unit. “We see major promise for storage and HPC platforms with the EPYC CPU, as well as new possibilities for combined GPU solutions, enabling a wide array of new applications for customers around the globe.”

Wistron                                                               

“Wistron is glad to work with AMD to provide the most cost-effective all-flash array storage solutions for businesses competing in a constantly changing technology landscape,” said Peter Tung, chief operation officer of Enterprise Business Group, Wistron. “The value proposition for AMD’s EPYC CPU, particularly in non-volatile memory storage applications, is a major differentiator, and enables datacenter and enterprise customers to achieve high IOPS and throughput storage solutions.”

Hardware Partner Support

Mellanox

“In a data-centric world, we need to be able to analyze growing amounts of data and to be able to find data insights in real time. The combination of the unmatched data throughput and capacity of EPYC and the intelligent interconnect solutions from Mellanox will enable our customers and partners to maximize their application performance and overall data center return on investment.” said Michael Kagan, chief technology officer at Mellanox Technologies. “We are happy to be the preferred interconnect solution provider for the AMD EPYC platforms and look forward to continuing to collaborate with AMD and the OEM partners to enable world leading data center platforms.”

Samsung Electronics

"Samsung, in continuing our ongoing collaboration with AMD, has been working to deliver new leading-edge memory and flash storage solutions that will be enhanced by EPYC," said Jim Elliott, corporate vice president, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. "The industry-leading memory bandwidth and the outstanding I/O capacity delivered by EPYC enable Samsung and AMD to collectively offer an exceptionally high level of performance and efficiency to data center customers. Samsung solutions combined with the power of EPYC are planned for later this year, offering an advanced platform for in-memory database and analytics, High Performance Computing workloads, and more."

Xilinx

“The launch of the AMD EPYC processor signifies an important milestone in the industry,” said Victor Peng, chief operating officer at Xilinx. “Together with Xilinx’s All Programmable devices, the EPYC platform provides outstanding performance when accelerating data center applications. We are also delighted to be working with AMD in furthering open data center standards, such as the CCIX interconnect, to provide the necessary heterogeneous computing solutions for next generation workloads.”

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^{1.     Score based on AMD internal testing of 2 x EPYC 7601 CPU in, Supermicro AS-1123US-TR4, Ubuntu 16.04, x86 Open64 v4.5.2.1 Compiler Suite, 512 GB (16 x 32 GB 2Rx4 PC4-2666) memory, 1 x 500 GB SSD.  As of May 29, 2017. See www.spec.org  for more information.  NAP-11}