Why AMD EPYC is the Right Choice for Hosters. For hosters looking to balance performance, power efficiency, and cost, AMD is the clear choice. With scalability, performance, and energy efficiency in mind, AMD EPYC CPUs help hosters maximize their revenue while keeping operational costs low. Whether targeting budget-conscious customers or high-performance users, the AMD EPYC processor portfolio ensures that hosters have the right tools to succeed.

A few days ago, AMD was on the ground in Germany for CloudFest 2025 — a global gathering of the boldest innovators in cloud infrastructure.

CloudFest delivered a dynamic showcase of progress across public and private clouds, hosting, security, and edge. From hyperscalers to regional service providers, the message was clear: the cloud is scaling fast, and the infrastructure must scale smarter

About 10 years ago, Pixar spun up an idea to inspire and engage the next generation of digital artists, which resulted in the genesis of Pixar’s RenderMan Art Challenge. Everyone, from students, to hobbyists, to visual effects (VFX) professionals, was invited to create a visual story based on the year’s theme. Each participant, equipped with their unique vision and narrative, VFX quality assets, and Pixar’s RenderMan tools, produced an incredible range of submissions. Finalists of the challenge received valuable prizes provided by sponsors like AMD. Beginning in 2022, Pixar teamed up with AMD and Ranch Computing to give RenderMan Challenge participants free access to powerful compute services in the cloud. With equitable access to this technology at their fingertips, participants in the contest are on equal footing, and artists can instead focus on bringing their creative vision to life using the most advanced hardware available. They can also render new kinds of images that previously were impossible to create. AMD is looking forward to partnering once more with Pixar this year in support of Pixar’s RenderMan Art & Science Fair during SIGGRAPH 2025 and beyond. With Pixar’s upcoming release of RenderMan XPU hybrid rendering engine, 2025 marks a momentous year ahead, not only for Pixar and AMD, but for the entirety of the film industry.

In the rapidly evolving AI landscape, GPUs have become indispensable, driving advancements from deep learning to complex data analytics. The latest AMD Instinct™ accelerators are purpose-built for exceptional performance and efficiency, delivering leadership capabilities across foundation model training, fine-tuning, and inference. However, AI is not a one-size-fits-all challenge—nor is enterprise IT infrastructure.

While GPUs remain essential for large-scale generative AI, 5^th Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs are the world’s best CPU for enterprise AI[i] that provide a scalable, cost-effective path for AI-enhanced applications and host node performance. With high-frequency processing, leadership memory capacity, and seamless x86 compatibility, AMD delivers an evolutionary path to AI acceleration, enabling organizations to integrate, scale, and modernize their infrastructure at their own pace—with little disruption.

Is SMT still relevant on CPUs in 2025? Learn about how SMT works and why it is a major contributor to performance and energy efficiency on AMD EPYC server CPUs.

With increased core counts, memory capacity and I/O expandability, many IT leaders are looking to modernize their IT infrastructure with single socket (1P) server solutions. 1P servers can provide cost-effective, performant, and energy efficient solutions for most workloads. So, how do you know if 1P solutions are right for you? This blog takes a look at things to consider and which workloads are best suited for 1P and 2P platforms.

Granite Rapids In an ever-evolving technology landscape, enterprise IT managers must consider many factors when selecting hardware, including performance vs. power efficiency, security and compliance, scalability and future proofing, cloud vs. on-prem, total cost of ownership (TCO), and more. Choosing the right processor is crucial to optimizing performance, efficiency, and cost—for any deployment model. One feature that can help boost performance and efficiency, offered across nearly all AMD EPYC™ processors, is simultaneous multithreading (SMT), which allows a single physical CPU core to execute multiple threads simultaneously.

IT leaders are under pressure to manage shrinking budgets, optimize compute-intensive AI workloads, and implement viable sustainability strategies.  These competing imperatives are not easily rationalized!  Together AMD and Nutanix can help your IT department overcome these and other challenges.  This blog post briefly illustrates how Nutanix Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and virtualization software running on AMD EPYC™ processors will help you lower software licensing costs, optimize workload performance and reduce your carbon footprint. 

Earlier in November AMD showcased its ongoing high-performance computing (HPC) leadership at Supercomputing 2024 by powering the world’s fastest supercomputer for the sixth straight Top500 list. (source) With over 500 performance world records and 200+ world records in HPC technical apps as of October 10, 2024, including modeling and simulation, intensive computation, floating point performance & HPC energy efficiency, AMD EPYC™ CPUs are well-established as a leader in enabling HPC performance. This blog details performance comparisons and results, including TFLOPS performance calculation.

Discover how upgrading to AMD EPYC processors can help resolve IT challenges, boost performance, reduce costs, and simplify migration in today's demanding data center landscape. In this blog, learn about the compelling TCO benefits, VMware collaboration, and innovative features they offer that address workload demands and efficiency goals, paving the way for a future-ready data center. Dive in to learn how transitioning to AMD EPYC can recoup expenses in as little as two months and transform your organization's IT infrastructure.