AMD tops Intel with its 32-core Threadripper 2, which will ship this year
AMD just did Intel one better at Computex. On the Tuesday of the show, Intel wowed the Taipei crowds with a 28-core Core chip (see page 11), which the company promised by the end of the year. One day after, on Wednesday, AMD announced Threadripper 2—and at 32 cores and 64 threads, it will easily top what Intel promised.
AMD’s Threadripper 2 announcement was the highlight of the company’s press conference, which didn’t have much to offer in the way of
