Intel also used EPIC to describe VLIW:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicitly_parallel_instructio...

It might be completely deliberate, as the WoW generation might be coming into positions where they are now the "enterprise guys" that need to be targeted. Or maybe I'm just reading too much into a whimsical name.

Can confirm, I worked in an enterprise where WoW participation was ... prevalent.

I've heard of children named "Riku" and "Sora," so I think the WoW generation has definitely come of age by now...

Riku is a pretty common Finnish name.

Sora on the other hand means "gravel" in Finnish. Suprisingly there are few Finns named Sora too.

Yeah; for some reason it's still common to think of Millennials as being teenagers despite some of the older ones having teenagers.

Depending on whose definition of millenials that's certainly true, I was born 1980, I'm 37 in a couple of weeks and some would have me as a millenial..which is kind of funny since statistically I'm damn near half way through my life.

I do think that might have played a role here, smart product naming for the Internet-generation will have an impact even in the enterprise settings!

As opposed to Xeon?

I personally think EPYC is a lot more tacky than Xeon or Opteron since "epic" has gaming and (internet) pop culture connotations for me. I was pretty surprised when I heard the name and heard it was an enterprise product.

Maybe it's pronounced "EP-yick", which would make it less gamey and more enterprisey.

I don't know, Itanium is one of the most enterprise things not made by IBM, and it was called EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing)

I should also mention that they are targeting only single and dual socket.

It also has "disruptive performance." I am not sure if I should take it as a good sign, that AMD talks more with reddit than with their marketing department.