The company?EU?s announcement comes a day after Intel wowed audiences at the Computex IT trade show in Taipei, with its new i9 processors, which pack in up to 18 processing cores and 36 threads. Although AMD announced the launch of Threadripper about a month ago, the company took advantage of Computex to offer more information.
The Threadripper is targeted at the high-end desktop market, including gaming, 4K graphics rendering, and VR applications, AMD said. The company was able to show off a couple high-performance systems from OEMs such as ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI. Each has produced a motherboard to support the X399 chipset used by Threadripper. The new motherboards also feature quad-channel memory and support for up to 2 TB of RAM.
The company also publicly demonstrated a Ryzen mobile APU in an ultraportable design, with four cores, eight threads, and the company?EU?s Vega architecture-based graphics into a sub-15mm thickness notebook design. The demo featured the Ryzen mobile-powered notebook playing HD video content.
But information about high-end desktop processors is not the only news AMD had to share at this year?EU?s Computex. The company also announced the launch date for EPYC, its new family of high-performance processors for cloud-based and traditional on-premises datacenters. Previously codenamed "Naples," the first EPYC processor-based servers are scheduled to launch June 20. EPYC is based on the company's existing Zen x86 architecture.