Intel's massive 18-core Core i9 chip

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Originally Posted by Vcc

So they just teased us... ;(
Still good to see that they are going to unleash these "hidden monsters" from Intel's cage :)

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This is one way to put it. Or we can say that Intel never did plan this product in the first place and this was simply a reaction to Threadripper. They paperlaunched a product that won'T be on the market for the coming 6-8 month...it tells me that this is ver much an afterthought even if obviously Intel knew about TR a bt earlier than the public. BTW kudos for AMD to keeping TR secret for so long - probably everyone was so focused on the Ryzen AM4 platform that this one slipped in under the radars and probably no one took it seriously enough anyways.

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Originally Posted by csatahajos

This is one way to put it. Or we can say that Intel never did plan this product in the first place and this was simply a reaction to Threadripper. They paperlaunched a product that won'T be on the market for the coming 6-8 month...it tells me that this is ver much an afterthought even if obviously Intel knew about TR a bt earlier than the public. BTW kudos for AMD to keeping TR secret for so long - probably everyone was so focused on the Ryzen AM4 platform that this one slipped in under the radars and probably no one took it seriously enough anyways.

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they kept TR quiet for so long since no one cared when we saw samples we assumed the new g platform. this kind of part is not new, amd has had dual cpu packages since like 2010, but they surprised us with a consumer/overclockable version. the interesting thing was the x399 branding since that would have got people interested over just replacing g34.