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AMD is rumored to be releasing a line of Ryzen 9 "Threadripper" enthusiast CPUs that include 10, 12, 14, or 16 cores. This is in contrast to the Ryzen lines of AMD CPUs that topped out at the 8-core Ryzen 7 1800X with a base clock of 3.6 GHz.
Meanwhile, Intel is supposedly planning to release 6, 8, 10, and 12 core Skylake-X processors under an "Intel Core i9" designation. Two Kaby Lake-X, a quad-core and another quad-core with hyper-threading disabled, are also mentioned.
Finally, AMD's 32-core "Naples" server chips could be succeeded in late 2018 or 2019 by a 48-core 7nm part nicknamed "Starship". GlobalFoundries plans to skip the 10nm node, and where GF goes, AMD follows. Of course, according to Intel, what really matters are transistors per square millimeter.
All of the processors mentioned could be officially announced at Computex 2017, running from May 30 to June 3. Expect the high end desktop (HEDT) CPUs to be in excess of $500 and as high as $1,500. Intel may also announce Coffee Lake CPUs later this year including a "mainstream" priced 6-core chip.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Arik on Tuesday May 16 2017, @04:08AM (4 children)
I anticipate the answer is no, which means these manufacturers continue to be incompetent and customer hostile, and their vaporware is of no interest whatsoever.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by takyon on Tuesday May 16 2017, @04:35AM (1 child)
Why don't you tell the class about the pile of free as in liberty vacuum tubes you're posting from? And is that a mobile phone surveillance device I see peeking out of your pocket?
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(Score: 4, Funny) by sgleysti on Tuesday May 16 2017, @05:43AM
Or you two gentlemen could just put them on the table and measure.
(Score: 2) by ledow on Tuesday May 16 2017, @08:23AM (1 child)
Yes.
And microcode.
Because people need the previously-listed functions and it's your fault if you fail to lock down and configure your networks appropriately.
And when they discover a security bug and you whinge like hell about it, with microcode they can update your CPU for you. Without it, they can't.
Customer-hostile is removing features that some people depend on, and not allowing your products to be fixed in the field but require a recall for the simplest of bugs.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Tuesday May 16 2017, @06:38PM
The problem is not that it uses microcode per se, it's that the microcode is a hidden blob which the customer cannot update. This is effectively the machine code level of programming on a modern cpu, and it's deliberately obscured from the customer. I don't want to be at the mercy of the manufacturer to fix bugs, or to decide which bugs need to be fixed, or to be introduced, and without open access to that microcode that's exactly what you are buying.
"not allowing your products to be fixed in the field"
And that's exactly what happens here. Sure, you can fix bugs in the field with their blobs, when they decide they want to fix them, but they've completely stripped the purchaser, the owner of the machine, of the ability to do this despite the fact that it would be easier, technically, to open this up than to close it. That justifies the adjectives used.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday May 16 2017, @06:35PM (3 children)
Dear AMD, I want to make my boss buy your chips, but for that you have to give us quad-channel DDR4 to fill big caches.
Our loads will fill all the memory bandwidth we can throw at them. Pretty please, don't make us go Intel again this round.
8 cores will do, unless we can get 10 for a reasonable premium.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday May 16 2017, @07:58PM (2 children)
The leak says 4x DDR4-3200 for all Ryzen 9 chips. So if it's not fake news, you got your wish.
10 cores is the minimum for Ryzen 9.
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday May 16 2017, @09:00PM (1 child)
Yes, TFA made me happy. Crossing fingers that it was a real leak, and not someone's wishful thinking (part numbers help make it more believable).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @11:49AM
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