AMD unveils second-generation Threadripper offering 32-core, 64-thread CPU on 12nm

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Jim Anderson, general manager, Computing and Graphics Business Group at AMD, launching Threadripper 2
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Jim Anderson, general manager, Computing and Graphics Business Group at AMD, launching Threadripper 2

A day after Intel trails 28-core Core i9, AMD goes more than one better

AMD's second-generation Threadripper workstation CPU will offer up to 32 cores and 64 threads, the company revealed at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan today. The launch trumped Intel's keynote yester...

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