Is Epyc really going to make any big impact on the global server market? Call me old-fashioned, but I just can't imagine enterprises moving to Epyc any time soon. Intel has built a really powerful brand with Xeon over the years.
There are not as many huge enterprises, but they are a huge amount of the market in terms of volume, and at those scales a 1% savings is worth years of engineering expenses, and you can bet that they will be doing the studies and choosing the most cost-effective option regardless of previous decisions.
And most of these Skylake order were placed well in advance, when they / the market didnt even have time to evaluate EPYC.
I do think they will move to EPYC in some form, just to keep Intel's price in check. After all EPYC offers much more value.
"Microsoft Announces Azure VMs with Dual 32-core AMD EPYC CPUs" - https://www.anandtech.com/show/12116/amd-and-microsoft-annou...
Wouldn't be surprised to see an equivalent AWS announcement soon, either.