AMD"s third-gen EPYC CPUs, codenamed "Milan" is launching next week on March 15. The launch event will be hosted digitally and will be available on this event page from 8 a.m. PT or 11 a.m. ET.
Several high-profile AMD employees including CEO and President Dr. Lisa Su will be presenting at the event. Other speakers include:
- Executive Vice President of Technology and Engineering and CTO Mark Papermaster,
- Senior Vice President and General Manager, Datacenter and Embedded Solutions Business Group, Forrest Norrod,
- Senior Vice President and General Manager, Server Business Unit, Dan McNamara.
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At CES this year, AMD briefly previewed the performance of its Zen 3-based Milan CPUs when it compared it against an Intel Xeon part. AMD used dual unnamed 32-core EPYC Milan CPUs and pitted it against dual Intel Xeon Gold 6258R processors. The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model which is a weather prediction and simulation test was run on both systems and the EPYC part was found to be 68% faster. An AMD victory was to be expected considering that the Intel Xeon model had four fewer cores but still this was a mighty impressive showing from Team Red.
AMD hoped to release the Milan CPUs late last year but that got delayed probably due to the ongoing 7nm wafer shortage.