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To: stsimon who wrote (21848)	1/4/2018 11:54:03 AM
From: neolib	Respond to of 72897

Sans knowledge of this issue, Epyc being slotted into I/O intensive applications looked simply like taking advantage of the high PCIe lane count vs Xeon, so more cost effective on the hardware side, while basically acknowledging that Epyc was not going to win compute intensive applications vs Xeon. But now it looks like in addition to a platform cost advantage on I/O intensive applications, Epyc might have a performance advantage there as well. Your point about the cloud providers announcements on using Epyc in I/O intensive applications has this situation written all over it. I am not a big believe in coincidence.