It’s becoming increasingly difficult these days to keep AMD’s
Ryzen out of the limelight. The latest rumor to hit the inter-web speaks of an
upcoming and yet unnamed 16-core desktop processor from AMD with an
accompanying new socket. According to these unconfirmed speculations
(originally from Chinese tech-site Chiphell), the new processor would be pitted
squarely against Intel’s HEDT champion i7-6950X – a 10-core/20-thread behemoth.
If the rumors are to be believed, AMD’s answer to that is going to be an even
larger chip, accommodating 16 physical cores with equal number of logical ones
by virtue of SMT.
