AMD Collaborates with Microsoft to Advance Open Source Cloud Hardware(marketwired.com)

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AMD Collaborates with Microsoft to Advance Open Source Cloud Hardware

http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/amd-collaborates-with-microsoft-to-advance-open-source-cloud-hardware-2201579.htm

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keth9 lat temu

  Microsoft's Project Olympus platform design to incorporate the upcoming high-performance "Naples" x86 server processor

On top of the nice features of Naples outlined by hn user "throwawayish" [0] maybe also a response to Intel giving Google and Facebook a few months earlier access to Skylake-E?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13812406