AMD released a server chip ‘Milan’, wants to grab more share from Intel

AMD launched a server chip called ‘Milan’, aimed at grabbing more market share from rival Intel. AMD said that the company’s latest ‘Milan’ server chip has a faster processing speed than the current best data center chips.

It is reported that AMD completed the design of the chip and commissioned TSMC to utilize a 7-nanometer chip manufacturing process to achieve mass production.

AMD is currently mass-producing in cooperation with third-party chip manufacturers. Intel uses a different strategy of manufacturing its own chips, but the delay in the latest generation of chip manufacturing technology has plagued it.

In contrast, the performance of the ‘Milan’ chip and its predecessors have surpassed that of Intel chips, helping AMD gain more market share and winning the favor of Alphabet’s Google and other customers.

But Intel is about to fight back. Analysts predict that Intel will launch the latest “Ice Lake” server chip in the next few weeks that will be the first server chip to be mass-produced using Intel’s 10-nanometer manufacturing process.

The performance of the chips produced by Intel’s 10nm manufacturing process is equivalent to that of the ‘Milan’ chips on the 7nm manufacturing process.

Regardless of the speed of the two chips, AMD is still expected to have some advantages, such as more computing cores on each chip that allows the chip to process more software applications at the same time.

Dan McNamara, senior vice president, and general manager of AMD’s server business unit said that if the company continues to integrate customer feedback into a new generation of chips, it can maintain its leading position.

He said at the press conference, ‘We are now developing a third-generation chip, and we believe that this is a very valuable product, leading in the field of data center chips. If we keep this pace of execution unchanged, We can continue to remain competitive.’

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