AMD promises 32-core Threadripper processor for later this year

Mere hours after Intel raised eyebrows with the promise of a 5GHz 28-core processor, AMD has done four cores better with its own tease of a 32-core chip. The second generation of AMD’s Threadripper processors will have a truly extreme variant that straps four 8-core Ryzen APUs together to form a unified, humongous 32-core part. This “heavy metal” Threadripper can handle 64 processing threads at a time, doubling the core count and capabilities of the original Threadripper, though it can still fit in the same motherboard socket.

The only other details that AMD disclosed here at Computex were that the second-gen Threadripper is built using a 12nm process and will be made available in the third quarter of this year.

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