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posted by on Thursday May 18 2017, @08:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the threadripper?-really? dept.

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"


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by qzm on Thursday May 18 2017, @08:49AM

    by qzm (3260) on Thursday May 18 2017, @08:49AM (#511599)

    And by the time this news hit Soylent, the stock was back below the start of the 'surge'
    Blink and you missed it, folks :)

    On a side note, whomever thought the name EPYC was good need to be tarred, feathered, hung, drawn, quartered, and made to eat lutefisk as their last dinner.

    EPIC was such a resoundingly successful piece of server technology, after all.....

    I am guessing the kids who made that decision weren't around then though, after all, it was YEARS ago.

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