{"id":1032,"date":"2019-05-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:07:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:07:29","slug":"the-rise-of-amd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/the-rise-of-amd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of AMD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>Since the launch of AMD&rsquo;s EPYC&trade; 7000 Series processors in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Epyc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 2017<\/a>, AMD&rsquo;s server market share has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/78664-amd-cutting-deeply-intel-market-share-across-desktop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quadrupled<\/a>. Although this is still far from the 22% market share AMD held in 2006, the EPYC&trade; 7000 Series is already being backed by some of the world&rsquo;s most renowned cloud computing companies including Amazon.com, Microsoft, DropBox, and Oracle.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16pt\">A short history<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) started manufacturing microchips in 1969, just one year after Intel. This would be the birth of a rivalry that would span more than half a century.<\/p>\n<p>Although AMD is often seen as the underdog, the company has managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/picturestory\/846-amd-beats-intel-cpus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beat Intel quite a few times<\/a>&nbsp;when it comes to CPU technology innovation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">2000 &ndash; AMD produces the first-ever consumer desktop processor to operate at 1GHz (Athlon 1000).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">2003 &ndash; Releases processors with built-in memory controllers five years before Intel (Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 X).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">2003 &ndash; Releases world&rsquo;s first consumer 64-bit processor (Athlon 64).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">2004 &ndash; Introduced dual-core processors to the world (Opteron).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">2013 &ndash; Hits the 5GHz mark, five years before Intel (FX-9590).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">2017 &ndash; World&rsquo;s first 16-core consumer processor (Ryzen Threadripper 1950X)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is the same Zen microarchitecture that is used in the Ryzen Threadripper that allowed AMD to build their game-changing EPYC&trade; 7000 Series.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16pt\">What makes AMD&rsquo;s EPYC&trade; 7000 Series processors different?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the world of website hosting, speed, security, and stability is key. From a server standpoint, EPYC&trade; delivers on all three of these points. EPYC&trade;, claims to offer data centres &ldquo;33 percent more memory bandwidth, 2.6x the I\/O and 160 percent more memory capacity than the competitor&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16pt\">Leading the local charge<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We are proud to be one of the first local hosting companies to adopt AMD&rsquo;s EPYC&trade; processors. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/vps-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new high-performance EPYC&trade; VPS hosting solution<\/a> also boasts SuperMicro hardware and Samsung Enterprise SSD hard drives to ensure additional stability, reliability and performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the launch of AMD&rsquo;s EPYC&trade; 7000 Series processors in June 2017, AMD&rsquo;s server market share has quadrupled. Although this is still far from the 22% market share AMD held in 2006, the EPYC&trade; 7000 Series is already being backed by some of the world&rsquo;s most renowned cloud computing companies including Amazon.com, Microsoft, DropBox, and Oracle. A short history Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) started manufacturing microchips in 1969, just one year after Intel. This would be the birth of a rivalry that would span more than half a century. Although AMD is often seen as the underdog, the company has managed to beat Intel quite a few times&nbsp;when it comes to CPU technology innovation: 2000 &ndash; <a alt='The Rise of AMD' title='The Rise of AMD' href='https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/the-rise-of-amd\/' class='moreElipsis'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004],"tags":[1114,1117,1118,1116,1115,1026],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-information","tag-amd-s-epyc-7000-series-processors","tag-and-stability-is-key","tag-high-performance-epyc-vps-hosting-solution","tag-security","tag-speed","tag-website-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3603,"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/3603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}