From CNET: AMD's new 16-core Ryzen 9 series 1998X CPU is all set to take on Intel's 18-core Core i9 in high-end desktops.
Making the announcements on Wednesday in Taipei at its Computex press event, the company said the new CPUs would be shipping in summer 2017.
The move comes as AMD tries to catch up to both Intel and Nvidia, who have left the chipmaker somewhat behind in both CPU and GPU departments, respectively. In 2016, AMD's market share in desktop PCs was at its lowest in a decade, powering only 13 percent of PCs, compared to Intel's 87 percent, according to IDC.
AMD's CEO Lisa Su, however, tried to paint a sunny picture at the press conference.
"AMD really loves the PC business, we drive over 250 million units a year," said Su.
The new Ryzen 9 CPUs, codenamed "Threadripper," are based on the company's Zen-core architecture, with the base model sporting 10 cores on the CPU. All chips in the Ryzen 9 range will support quad-channel DDR4 memory. Major Taiwanese brands such as Asrock, Asus, Gigabyte and MSI will have motherboards ready when the chip ships. Pricing was not announced, but expect the chips to be priced very competitively against Intel.
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