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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 Sunday May 21 2017, @06:20AM
Uhhh how exactly is that "insightful" when I had already said "and there are some niche applications that can use all those threads" which again the key word is NICHE. How many people do you know that regularly re-encode entire seasons of TV shows? Hell how many people do you know that are actually capable of performing that task if you told them to do so?
I've been working with the pubic WRT their PCs for nearly 40 years and I stand by my statement, the vast majority simply cannot come up with enough useful work to keep what they have now fed, much less these monsters. I find when someone says "my PC is too slow"? It nearly always translates to "I have a shitty HDD for my OS drive and its holding the system down". Replace that shitty drive with a $60 SSD for an OS drive? Suddenly you are Scotty on the Enterprise, a miracle worker that can "supercharge" a PC as one customer put it.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.