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 F-Series? 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: OEM-Locked 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