AMD EPYC breaks Intel's server grip (2017)
AMD launched its first EPYC server processors under Lisa Su, targeting a data-center market where Intel held well over 95 percent share. Early buyers were skeptical of switching. AMD competed on core count, memory, and price.
Adoption was slow at first as customers tested reliability and software support.
Over several years EPYC took more than a third of the server CPU market, proving AMD could unseat an entrenched leader.
The MI400 follows the same playbook against Nvidia that EPYC ran against Intel: a credible challenger chipping away at a near-monopoly over years, not months.
