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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: 2) by Hairyfeet on Thursday May 18 2017, @11:24PM
But if you aren't even maxxing out the cores that you have what does it matter? Your cores can twiddle their thumbs much faster now? I only have 2 applications where half my cores aren't permanently parked, Audacity and Handbrake and even on those I'm not maxxing my cores, a few spikes here and there but the difference between the chip I have and Ryzen when it comes to doing the actual jobs I have to do? I'd have to keep a Ryzen for a decade for me to come out ahead because of the price of electricity being low in my area.
And that is why I've gotten into HTPCs and home theater installs, because the same is true for a huge chunk of the population. Hell if all you are doing is surfing, watching vids, light photo editing and using FB like a lot of folks? Well I have customers with C2D laptops that are completely happy with what they have after I upgraded it to an SSD. Even my gamer customers see more benefit these days from a GPU or PCIe SSD upgrade than they do CPU because so few of the games are CPU bound these days. Maybe it will change in the future but I'm sure both AMD and Intel have sunk a ton into finding ways to use more cores effectively and so far no joy, we have had multicores since 2006 and after 11 years we still seem to be no better at using cores than we were a decade ago.
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