Shares of AMD rose 11.6% on Tuesday as Fudzilla reported that Intel would license graphics technologies from AMD after a similar deal with Nvidia expired two months earlier. The deal has not been confirmed.
On the other hand, AMD's 16-core "Threadripper" enthusiast/HEDT CPUs have been confirmed:
With one of the gnarliest CPU codenames we've ever seen, the Threadripper multicore monsters will go head to head with Intel's Broadwell-E and upcoming Skylake-E High-End Desktop (HEDT) CPUs alongside a new motherboard platform that promises expanded memory support and I/O bandwidth. That's likely to take the form of quad-channel RAM and more PCIe lanes, similar to Intel's X99 platform, but AMD is saving further details for its press conference at Computex at the end of May.
AMD's 32-core "Naples" server chips are now known as... "Epyc".
You have seen the launch of 4, 6, and 8-core AMD Ryzen parts. How do you feel about 10, 12, 14, and 16 cores (prices unknown, likely $1,000 or more for 16 cores)?
Previously: CPU Rumor Mill: Intel Core i9, AMD Ryzen 9, and AMD "Starship"
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 18 2017, @10:53AM (3 children)
The back door will be in the graphics part of the chip
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday May 18 2017, @11:40AM (2 children)
There are no graphics on most of these... must be a pretty big back door.
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(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday May 18 2017, @03:13PM (1 child)
It's a screen door.
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(Score: 1) by The Vocal Minority on Friday May 19 2017, @06:13AM
Where is the "+1 Groan" mod?