As explained by the pages Barron's Tech Trader Daily representatives of Canaccord Genuity, preparing for the announcement in the next three years, 7-nm processors Rome and Milan will be compatible with motherboards, which now can work with EPYC processors.
Compatibility with previous platforms has long been a competitive advantage of AMD products, and in the case of new server solutions this is especially important, as it is important for the company to attract customers who are willing to work with its server processors for several years. In the desktop segment, it's not so obvious, as AMD representatives in the interview repeatedly hinted that it is necessary to maintain a balance of interests between maintaining compatibility and introducing new standards
of memory and interfaces.
In the same analytical material, Summit Redstone experts say that over the past two months, Ryzen 7 processor sales are declining, and game lovers still prefer Intel Kaby Lake models with higher clock speeds. In this sense, as experts say, AMD will have to make considerable efforts to press the Skylake-EP processors in the server segment, as they will offer higher frequencies compared to AMD EPYC.