The AI Infrastructure Stack
Overview  /  Tier IV Compute Hardware  /  Layer 09: CPUs, Memory & Storage
Sub-category 9.1

Server CPUs (Host Processors)

The CPU sitting next to the GPUs. Lower attach value per box than in the pre-AI world, but still material at scale.

Players

Players: AMD EPYC AMD, Intel Xeon INTC, Nvidia Grace (ARM) NVDA, Ampere Computing SoftBank, AWS Graviton (ARM) AMZN, Microsoft Cobalt MSFT, Google Axion (ARM) GOOG, Alibaba Yitian BABA, Huawei Kunpeng Private

Analysis coming soon — this page is scaffolding for deeper research into server cpus (host processors).