AMD Trolls Intel: Offers 16-Core Chip to Winners of Six-Core 8086K
AMD's feud with Intel took an interesting turn today as the company announced that it would swap 40 Core i7-8086K's won from Intel's sweepstakes with a much beefier Threadripper 1950X CPU.
At Computex 2018, Intel officially announced it was releasing the Core i7-8086K, a special edition processor that commemorates the 40th anniversary of the 8086, which debuted as the first x86 processor on June 8, 1978. As part of the special-edition release, Intel opened up a sweepstakes to give away 8,086 of the six-core 12-thread processors. Intel also made the processors available at retail, and though the company doesn't have an official MSRP, you can find the chips at several retailers for ~$425.
Now AMD is offering to replace 40 of the winners' chips with its own 16-core 32-thread $799 Threadripper processors, thus throwing a marketing wrench into Intel's 40th-anniversary celebration.
See also: The Intel Core i7-8086K Review
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday June 19 2018, @01:02AM
They tried to do that last time, and they ended up being broadly mocked across the tech press, despite their close ties with a lot of the outlets.
Intel Teases 28 Core Chip, AMD Announces Threadripper 2 With Up to 32 Cores [soylentnews.org]
AMD Ratcheting Up the Pressure on Intel [soylentnews.org]
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-cpu-28-core-5-ghz,37201.html [tomshardware.com]
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-28-core-processor-5ghz-motherboard,37213.html [tomshardware.com]
https://www.pcmag.com/news/361855/amds-32-core-threadripper-2-is-making-intel-sweat [pcmag.com]
https://www.semiaccurate.com/2018/06/14/intel-forgets-a-lot-at-their-computex-keynote/ [semiaccurate.com]
Intel can't do any more damage to AMD than AMD could self-inflict by fouling up its momentum (or messing up on the graphics side vs. Nvidia). Unless you believe Intel is being very gentle to AMD to avoid antitrust issues, and they are going to pull out some 3D/SiGe 100 GHz monster out of their back pockets.
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