At 72 mm x 75.4 mm, that is one huge chip.

Quote from: JayN on March 01, 2021, 19:38:53
"...uphill battle in the server arena"

Intel has around 92% of x86 server share.  That's hard to consider an uphill battle. 

Millions of low performance servers mean nothing when the largest players in the market are using EPYCs.
Beaides nation-state players like the new exaflop supercomputers running exclusively on AMD hardware, AWS also employs EPYCs for their high end compute clusters.

This isn't a market share issue, year for year, core for core, AMD is destroying Intel's HPC customer base.

"...uphill battle in the server arena"

Intel has around 92% of x86 server share.  That's hard to consider an uphill battle. 

Intel has been "broadly sampling" their Sapphire Rapids server chip since q4 ... pcie5, cxl, ddr5, avx512, amx tiled matrix operations, dlboost ai inference operations, Optane DIMM support.