Fourth-gen Intel Xeon, on the other hand, only goes up to 60 cores per CPU, requiring more CPUs and, therefore, more servers to achieve similar levels of core density. This means a dual-socket server can sport up to 192. This large uptick in cores is due to the high core counts of fourth-gen AMD EPYC processors, which provide up to 96 cores on a single CPU. Now with X10M, Oracle is letting go of Intel CPUs entirely and betting on AMD CPUs for the latest generation of the Exadata platform, which the company said delivers “extreme scale and dramatically improved price performance.”Ĭompared to the X9M platform, X10M provides three times more cores in database servers and two times more cores in storage servers, which help the platform provide up to three times higher transaction throughput and as much as 3.6 times faster analytics queries, according to Oracle. Third-gen EPYC CPUs powered the cloud offering’s database servers while third-gen Intel Xeon CPUs covered the processing for storage servers. While Oracle chose Intel Xeon for the X9M version Oracle Exadata Machine and Oracle Exadata the company opted to mix Intel CPUs and AMD CPUs for that generation’s iteration of Oracle Exadata Cloud Infrastructure in early 2022. But the company’s preferences began to change with the X9M platform, which debuted in 2021. Oracle Tapped AMD For Higher Core Countsįor most of Exadata’s history, Oracle relied on Intel Xeon processors to power the on-premises versions of the platform since its 2008 debut. It’s easy to use and easy to work with, and it gives you a lot of performance for your workload that you wouldn’t find anywhere else,” he said. “Once you start using it, it’s hard to get away from it. “Exadata has a long tail of revenue,” he said in an email.įranky Faust, a lead Oracle database consultant at Ottawa, Ontario-based Pythian, said Exadata is popular with Oracle customers because it’s easy to use and fast for database workloads. Holger Mueller, principal analyst at Constellation Research, told CRN that Exadata serves as a vehicle for the company’s database services and, as a result, helps drive Platform-as-a-Service revenue. X10M represents a significant change in CPU vendor for Oracle’s Exadata platform, which is used by nearly 90 percent of the Fortune Global 100, according to previous statements by the company. The company said that fourth-generation AMD EPYC processors, which launched last fall, will power the 12th generation of its Exadata platform, the X10M, across its two on-prem offerings: Oracle Exadata Machine and the fully managed Oracle Exadata solution.Īn Oracle spokesperson told CRN that the X10M version of its third Exadata offering, Oracle Exadata Cloud Infrastructure, will also rely on AMD processors when the service is announced at a later date. Last week, Oracle revealed that it is fully eschewing Intel CPUs in favor of AMD CPUs for the company’s purpose-built database infrastructure, Exadata, across on-premises and cloud offerings for the first time in the platform’s 14-year history. We still spend more money on conventional compute.” Oracle Dumps Long-Time Ally Intel For AMD With Exadata X10M
We will spend three times that on CPUs from Ampere and AMD. “We will buy GPUs from Nvidia, and we’re buying billions of dollars of those. “This year, Oracle will buy GPUs and CPUs from three companies,” Ellison reportedly said. Oracle, which made $50 billion in revenue for its 2023 fiscal year, is also following rivals in the cloud and data center markets by investing deeper into GPUs from Nvidia, whose chips are the primary engines behind popular generative AI applications like ChatGPT.Īt a Wednesday event, Ellison said the company is spending “billions” of dollars on Nvidia GPUs and investing significantly more into CPUs from AMD and Ampere Computing, Reuters reported.
The moves underline the increased competition faced not just by Intel but also AMD, which makes x86 chips too, as Arm-based CPUs designed by companies like Ampere Computing proliferate deeper into the cloud and data center markets. The Austin, Texas-based infrastructure giant announced new initiatives with AMD and Ampere Computing in separate announcements over the past week. Oracle reportedly plans to spend significant amounts of money this year on CPUs from AMD and chip startup Ampere Computing for new infrastructure as the company’s founder and chairman, Larry Ellison, said that the “old Intel x86 architecture” is “reaching its limit.”
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