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Intel responds to Epyc challenge posed by AMD with Skylake-based 'Purley' Xeon CPUs

Carly Page

12 July 2017 • 2 min read

Intel claims its new server CPUs are '28 per cent faster' than AMD's Epyc

Intel has responded to AMD's renewed server and data centre challenge by unveiling a new series of 'Purley' Xeon server processors based on its new Skylake-SP architecture, just weeks after AMD sho...

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