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Intel's Comet Lake Could Boost Mainstream Core Count to 10 to Compete with AMD's Ryzen 3000-Series

posted by martyb on Thursday March 14 2019, @04:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the competition++ dept.

takyon writes:

Refresh Done Right? Intel Comet Lake Packs Up to 10 Cores

[coreboot], an open source project to replace the BIOS and UEFI, has some vital information on Comet Lakes. According to the Github page, Comet Lake-U (CML-U) processors, which are primarily aimed at laptops, carry up to six cores, while the Comet Lake-H (CFL-H) and Comet Lake-S (CMT-S) chips feature up to 10 cores.

Rumors on the street are that AMD's forthcoming Ryzen 3000-series desktop processors could purportedly pack a whopping 16 cores on a single chip. During AMD's presentation at the CES 2019 tech show in January, an eight-core, 16-thread Ryzen 3000-series chip was trading blows with Intel's Core i9-9900K, which could have pressured the Santa Clara chipmaker to cranking Comet Lake's core count to 10 cores for safe measure.

Intel is expected to launch its Comet Lake processors around the middle of the year. It's possible Intel could announce the chips at Computex 2019, which starts May 28.

Also at PCGamesN.

Related: AMD Announces Radeon VII GPU, Teases Third-Generation Ryzen CPU

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @06:34PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @06:34PM (#814364)

    16 vs 24? My system has 32 cores already...

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday March 14 2019, @07:07PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Thursday March 14 2019, @07:07PM (#814383) Journal

    Threadripper 3 also comes out this year. Threadripper 2 raised max core count to 32, matching the first Epyc generation. Now Epyc is up to 64 and we'll see if T3 stays at 32 or increases to 48 or 64 cores.

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