AMD Collaborates with Microsoft to Advance Open Source Cloud Hardware

  Microsoft's Project Olympus platform design to incorporate the upcoming high-performance "Naples" x86 server processor

On top of the nice features of Naples outlined by hn user "throwawayish" [0] maybe also a response to Intel giving Google and Facebook a few months earlier access to Skylake-E?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13812406