[andyferris]

Are generic web server workloads going to use these features? I would assume the bulk of e.g. EC2 spent its time doing boring non-accelerated “stuff”.

[everfrustrated]

Intel does a lot of work developing sdks to take advantage of its extra CPU features and works with open source community to integrate them so they are actually used.

Their acceleration primitives work with many TLS implementations/nginx/SSH amongst many others.

Possibly AMD is doing similar but I'm not aware.

[kkielhofner]

ICC, IPP, QAT, etc are definitely an edge.

In AI world they have OpenVINO, Intel Neural Compressor, and a slew of other implementations that typically offer dramatic performance improvements.

Like we see with AMD trying to compete with Nvidia software matters - a lot.

[pclmulqdq]

AMD is not doing similar stuff yet.