Intel's massive 18-core Core i9 chip

[csatahajos]

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

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.

[zanzabar]

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.

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.