Today, Intel owns the data center market. The only challenger in the x86 space, AMD, once claimed a significant share of that market, but has been all-but eliminated after years of noncompetitive CPU architectures. AMD has been driven to single-digit market share, though the company hopes to take back some of it with its upcoming Zen processor, due next year. Other vendors, like IBM or ARM, have an even smaller market share than AMD. That could change in the next few years, however, and Google has flung its support behind a new interconnect standard, OpenCAPI, and IBM’s POWER9 CPU architecture.
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