Intel announces its next-generation Ice Lake chips unexpectedly early

which also includes almost anything on anyones desk in the office.

I'm an admin that manages servers/blades/chassis/storage/vmware.

Since Ryzen, AMD have been reaching out to our managers, vendors offering cheaper desktop and server systems using AMD CPU's, which is appealing with so many vendors moving to core based licensing, and where intel tend to have a large number of cores, with a large number of logical processors, which are driving up licensing costs with all the big players like oracle and microsoft.

Low core count high clock is very attractive for those reasons, which could definitely destabilize intels ownership of datacenters, which has honestly been rock solid.

AMD CPU's means systems not using intel chipsets, which are also incredibly rock solid. Operating Systems like FreeBSD do not work well with non-intel network interfaces.

I personally have no desire to move away from intel as someone who has been asked to extend server lifetimes from 3-5 years and an extremely low failure rate.

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