By Bill Thomas
Over the last couple years, competition in the CPU market has skyrocketed – reigniting the spirit of competition that has been missing for a long time. Enter Skylake-X, Intel’s answer to AMD’s massively successful Ryzen and Threadripper CPUs.
First, a bit of backstory. Back in 2017, AMD revealed its Ryzen line of CPUs and caught Intel completely off-guard. For a minute, nobody knew how Intel was going to respond. There were of course rumors that Intel would announce Cannon Lake at Computex 2017, but that didn’t happen. Instead, Intel announced a new line of Core i9 processors aiming to reclaim the enterprise market.
And, in large part, it succeeded. Intel revealed the Core i9-7980XE at Computex 2017, and while we all knew it was going to happen, we were still impressed by its beastly performance – even though it came in at a price that was prohibitive, to say the least. However, that isn’t stopping Intel from forging on as the company announced its plans to introduce a 28-core processor at Computex 2018.
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Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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