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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

AMD Trolls Intel: Offers 16-Core Chip to Winners of Six-Core 8086K [tomshardware.com]

AMD's feud with Intel took an interesting turn today as the company announced that it would swap 40 Core i7-8086K's won from Intel's sweepstakes [tomshardware.com] with a much beefier Threadripper 1950X CPU [tomshardware.com].

At Computex 2018, Intel officially announced [tomshardware.com] it was releasing the Core i7-8086K, a special edition processor that commemorates the 40th anniversary of the 8086, which debuted as the first x86 processor on June 8, 1978. As part of the special-edition release, Intel opened up a sweepstakes to give away 8,086 of the six-core 12-thread processors. Intel also made the processors available at retail, and though the company doesn't have an official MSRP, you can find the chips at several retailers for ~$425.

Now AMD is offering to replace 40 of the winners' chips with its own 16-core 32-thread $799 Threadripper processors, thus throwing a marketing wrench into Intel's 40th-anniversary celebration.

See also: The Intel Core i7-8086K Review [anandtech.com]

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