The greatest trick Intel ever pulled was convincing the world x86 was open
At Intel's peak, the company convinced the telco world to move workloads from bespoke systems to COTS servers based on Intel Xeon. Somehow this would liberate telcos from single-vendor dependence and reduce costs. Samsung is now looking at AMD Epyc and Nvidia Grace (!) to unshackle virtual RAN from Intel, reports Light Reading.
