[kimixa]

But those accelerators are also available for AMD platforms - even if how they're provided is a bit different (often on add-in cards instead of a CPU "tile").

And things like the MI300A mean that isn't really a requirement now either.

[pclmulqdq]

They are not, at the moment. Google "QAT" for one example - I'm not talking about GPUs or other add-in cards at all.

[Tuna-Fish]

You might not be, but the parent poster is.

QAT is an integrated offering by Intel, but there are competing products delivered as add-in cards for most of the things it does, and they have more market presence than QAT. As such, QAT provides much less advantage to Intel than Intel marketing makes it seem like. Because yes, Xeon (including QAT) is better than bare Epyc, but Epyc + third party accelerator beats it handily. Especially in cost, the appearance of QAT seems to have spooked the vendors and the prices came down a lot.

[tecleandor]

I've only used a couple QAT accelerators and I don't know that field much... What relatively-easy-to-use and not-super-expensive accelerators are available around?