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		monocasa on May 16, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AMD Unveils “EPYC” CPUs Featuring Up to 32 Cores a... As opposed to Xeon?

ATsch on May 16, 2017 [–]

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.

EdSharkey on May 16, 2017 | [–]

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

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