AMD has revealed its new high-end desktop chip for consumers.<\/p>\n
AMD’s Jim Anderson announced the new processor last night, and is expected to release more information on the chip at Computex in June.<\/p>\n
The high-end CPU is targeted at premium users seeking the ultimate in multi-threaded performance.<\/p>\n
The Threadripper processor is based on AMD’s Zen architecture and boasts 16 physical cores with 32 threads.<\/p>\n
Currently, AMD’s most powerful Zen-based processor is the Ryzen 1800X – which is an unlocked chip with 8 physical cores and 16 threads.<\/p>\n
According to a report from PC Gamer<\/strong><\/a>, Intel may also announce a new high-end desktop processor in the near future.<\/p>\n AMD has revealed its new high-end desktop chip for consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":150881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[577,43216,40218,43214],"class_list":["post-210972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-amd","tag-hedt","tag-ryzen","tag-threadripper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211010,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210972\/revisions\/211010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0AMD catching up to Intel in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"