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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

Shares of AMD rose 11.6% on Tuesday [thestreet.com] as Fudzilla reported that Intel would license graphics technologies from AMD [fudzilla.com] after a similar deal with Nvidia expired two months earlier. The deal has not been confirmed [marketwatch.com].

AMD's 16-core "Threadripper" enthusiast/HEDT CPUs have also been confirmed [arstechnica.com]:

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 [arstechnica.co.uk] 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 [arstechnica.co.uk] 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)?

Previously: CPU Rumor Mill: Intel Core i9, AMD Ryzen 9, and AMD "Starship" [soylentnews.org]

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