Microsoft Azure Becomes First Global Cloud Provider to Deploy AMD EPYC™

https://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/microsoft-azure-becomes-2017dec05.aspx?sf175349396=1

128 threads, real multithreading programming

The “Zen” Core Architecture
http://www.amd.com/en/technologies/zen-core

AMD’s high-performance x86 Core “Zen” architecture delivers >52% improvement in instructions-per-clock cycle over the previous generation AMD core, without increasing power.1