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They’re fighting a calcified perception in the corporate IT market that the standard “unit of scale” should be a dual-socket system, because they have a differentiated product in EPYC that shines single-socket.

This likely still remains a major market barrier for them: Outside of the always-be-optimizing hyperscalers, “ordinary” datacenter buyers tend to follow old patterns and rules of thumb from generation to generation.