Dominic Daninger, vice president of engineering at Northern Computer Technologies, a Burnsville, Minn.-based custom system builder, after chip maker AMD unveiled its new Epyc data center chip family. Epyc marks AMD's return to the server market after a four-year hiatus.

"This competition helps the channel, and it makes Intel very sharp at its game. The memory bandwidth [on the Epyc SoCs] is good… AMD has generally had a lower-priced offering than Intel, so this should generate some interest with our customers."