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by chadmeister 2314 days ago
"Notably, for the first time, Intel is not inside. We are not using their hardware for any major server components such as the CPU, board, memory, storage, network interface card (or any type of accelerator)."
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Who cares? What matters is price performance. They need to deliver value. What's inside, I don't care.
In the next paragraph from the article

> This time, AMD is inside. We were particularly impressed by the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors because they proved to be far more efficient for our customers’ workloads. Since the pendulum of technology leadership swings back and forth between providers, we wouldn’t be surprised if that changes over time. However, we were happy to adapt quickly to the components that made the most sense for us.