5 Hot Software-Defined Data Center Chip Vendors: 2022 SDDC 50

June 07, 2022, 05:37 PM EDT

The world’s chip supply may be in disarray, but the companies making them are raking in revenue as customers scramble to bring processing power to bear on giant data center workloads.

AMD

Top Executive: Lisa Su, President, CEO

Headquarters: Santa Clara, Calif.

AMD’s innovation engine has been leading Fortune 500 companies, and cutting-edge scientific research to better outcomes for more than 50 years. The company recently partnered with Microsoft to create Azure HBv3 virtual machines enhanced by

3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors. The units come with AMD 3D V-cache, codenamed “Milan-X” which provides 80 percent more performance for certain workloads. AMD’s recent partnership with HPE and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory resulted in the Frontier, a supercomputer that set a record for performing a quintillion calculations in a second.

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O’Ryan Johnson

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