Ian Interviews, 4: Forrest Norrod, AMD SVP Datacenter

As AMD has launched its new EPYC Milan Enterprise CPUs, I sat down with the head of AMD s Datacenter business, Forrest Norrod. He s been with AMD through first gen EPYC, Naples, and to Rome, and now onto Milan, with Genoa on the horizon. Written version: 0:00 Intro 0:42 Q1: Milan 1:58 Q2: Launches in Italy 2:52 Q3: Position vs Competition 4:28 Q4: Goals for Milan 6:00 Q5: Partner Solutions 8:25 Q6: Milan Rollout with High Demand 9:51 Q7: Enterprise a Bigger Target 13:37 Q8: Pandemic Effect on EPYC 15:13 Q9: Milan FSeries 17:36 Q10: Milan at 280W on Day One 20:05 Q11: Hitting an IO Power Wall 22:47 Q12: Customized EPYC Demand 25:03 Q13: 50+ Customized Parts 25:51 Q14: Minimum Order Quantity 26:46 Q15: OEMLocked Processors 28:07 Q16: Milan Security Features 30:34 Q17: Reduced DRAM Configurations 32:14 Q18: Going Beyond DRAM to HBM 34:55 Q19: Milan + CDNA 36:50 Q20: Milan + ROCm 4. 0 38:00 Trento 39:08 Q21: Ulti