AMD engineers developed Threadripper CPU as a 'skunk works' project
AMD general manager Jim Anderson adopted Threadripper after being 'blown away' by the project

AMD's Threadripper high-end, workstation CPUs were developed by engineers in their spare time and only adopted as a part of the Ryzen line-up when new general manager Jim Anderson, recruited from Intel,...
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