AMD CEO confirms Threadripper is alive, well, and ‘moving up’ - hamelunifelly

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Though AMD Chief operating officer and Chair Lisa Su didn't mention the company's Threadripper processor in her Computex presentation Monday morn, she told reporters that the company hasn't discontinued it.

Su wowed a keynote audience here happening Monday with the disclosure of the company's first 12-core Ryzen 9 processor, the first off branding of the coming "Navi" C.P.U., and more. But any omission of a key product raises questions of its viability, and Su put together those questions to rest.

"You know. it's very interesting, or s of the things that circularise on the Internet—I don't think we ever said that Threadripper was not exit to continue—it somehow took on a animation of its own on the Internet," Su aforementioned, speaking to a small chemical group of reporters following her keynote. "You testament see more [Threadripper] from us; you will definitely see more."

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If anything, Su aforementioned later, the challenge is to differentiate Threadripper as the core count within the 3rd-gen Ryzen chips continues to climb. The groundbreaking Threadripper 1950X launched with 16 cores, and parts of the Cyberspace wondered if the 3rd-gen Ryzen cores would set in motion with 16 cores, too. That would seemingly undermine the value proposition of the Threadripper lineup—massive core counts for applications like video version that demanded them.

"If mainstream is mobile up, then Threadripper will wealthy person to move up, up—and that's what we're working on," Su same.

(As for satisfying AMD's fans who might have unsurprising a 16-sum chip, Su said that while the residential district cadaver important to the ship's company, "what we believe is that we're giving the biotic community an exceptional set of products.")

Su fielded a variety of questions about AMD's products, very much like she did favourable her CES call in January. Back past, she was somewhat vague about AMD's plans for shaft trace, a characteristic that rival Nvidia had driven into the market.

On Monday, Su implied that AMD would have much many to tell about irradiate tracing during a presentation at the E3 computer game show in Los Angeles roughly 10 days from now. "We'll give you more of the roadmap then," Su said when asked about AMD's ray-tracing plans.

Other highlights of Su's question-and-solvent academic session enclosed:

AMD has connected the ranks of those companies World Health Organization are "complying" with U.S. regulations in terms of supplying parts to Huawei. Su delineate Huawei as a "customer of ours, who have done some very nice PCs," but that AMD is "complying with the current regulations.:" She declined to rarify further.
To no one's surprisal, AMD continues to work to develop the Acid 2 and Zen 3 generations of CPU architecture, equally well atomic number 3 upcoming versions of RDNA, likewise. "As we go forward, we plan to be real, very aggressive happening both the Central processor and GPU engines," Su aforesaid.
Responding to a question about Intel's Project Athena designs and the new grade factors that project is expected to beget: "We're focusing a good deal connected the user experience," Su said. "And you know, with what that brings, I think you leave constitute very pleasantly surprised with unexampled form factors that will be coming away from AMD in the coming months."

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