it had been a while since AMD had tasted glory. By Read's departure, the last time the company posed a real threat to Intel was back in the early 2000s with its Athlon 64 processors. After that ...
AMD Athlon processors using Slot-A motherboards were the company's first multiplier-locked parts. The processors had their L1 bridges lasered off to prevent users from changing the chip's clock ...
In 2003, AMD debuted the Opteron, its first 64-bit CPU, which was later renamed Athlon 64. Phenom processors came out in 2008. In 2017, AMD began shipping its Ryzen line based on a new Zen ...
Up to now, we've seen mentions of the SKUs with 16, 32, 64, and 96 cores, the same as Storm Peak. We suspect that there should be a 24-core variant, too. Assuming AMD's recipe hasn't changed with ...