More arguments for AMD?
I think Intel very much screwed the pooch on this one, long term.
If you have to choose between a chip that uses more energy and then forced you to waste someo of that performance on keeping backdoors shut or something that's both cheaper, faster and more energy efficient it would almost amount to criminakl negligence if you didn't pick AMD. Or Apple's M1, but that's not going to help you much on the server side.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
