AmD EPYC server chip prices rise 10%-30%

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According to a market report, AMD has raised the price of EPYC server chips by 10% to 30%, but the impact varies from customer to customer, and the price increase for large cloud customers is small.

Jordan Klein, managing director of Mizuho Securities, quoted Dolly Wu, vice president and general manager of Data Center/Cloud business at Inspur Systems, in the above report, according to Tom's Hardware.

The report notes that AMD has raised the pricing of EPYC server chips by 10 to 30 percent, but its impact varies from customer to customer, with smaller gains for large cloud customers. Since there is no notification as to when more CPUs will arrive, AMD's customers can only accept higher prices.

It is understood that AMD's EPYC server chip, codenamed "Milan", has excellent performance and a large number of cores, which can improve the performance of data center servers and further reduce costs.

Tom's Hardware reports that AMD's price increase is not surprising given that both lithography (wafer) and packaging (OSAT) capacities rely on outside companies. These two factors may have a more severe impact on the supply of EPYC chips than AMD's other types of chips, because THE EPYC uses a multi-chip design that can hold up to 9 cores in a single chipset. Manufacturing costs are rising at nearly every step of the supply chain, and AMD's price increases may reflect the company's passing on to customers rather than a means of improving profit margins.

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