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  • realistz - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    AMD Threadripper 2 event just got rekt.
  • Chaitanya - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    Go troll on wccftech or somewhere else.
  • CajunArson - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    It's nice to see Intel showing off what its fabs are actually capable of.

    As for the rather ignorant comments that a 28 core part "has to be EMIB"... maybe if the people that wrote this "blog" had bothered to pay attention to the Skylake launch last year they'd know that 28 core parts on a single piece of silicon aren't anything new for Intel.

    Some companies learned how to put more than 8 cores on a chip a long long time before the fanboys acted like AMD invented the number "8" in 2017.
  • III-V - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    It's not a matter of "can they make a 28 core chip," dumbass. It's a matter of cost. If they can make a 28 core chip with EMIB stitching together dies, performs well, and costs less than a monolithic die (which it almost certainly would), why would they opt for a single die over a MCM?

    Both Ian and Anton have been in the business for a long time. They're well aware that Intel can make big dies. It's pretty hilarious that you are calling them ignorant.
  • CajunArson - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    Once again we see the usual assumption that because GloFo can't get its act together to produce a chip with more than 8 cores that Intel must be operating under the same constraints because of course Intel is full of a bunch of idiots.

    Or not.

    Intel is fully capable of producing a single die 28-core part cost effectively since these are clearly aimed at the halo-end of the HEDT segment. Stop pretending that GloFo's limitations are a roadblock to Intel.
  • tamalero - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    I'm unsure why are you blaming glofo for this. The usage of "glue" by AMD has been a success for them. Why would you risk yourself with low yields when you can use a clever design?
  • FullmetalTitan - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - link

    Per all my colleagues who left intel in the last 5 years:
    It IS full of idiots.

    AMD strategy of designing a simple core design and modulating perf/cores for different market segmentation to improve ROI was a massive boon in FY2017 in case you missed it.

    Intel is NOT capable of producing a single 28-core monolithic design cost effectively or the Xeon parts with >24 cores wouldn't be in such limited supply and cost $10k+ list.
    I guarantee the yields for the HCC and XCC parts is significantly lower than LCC/consumer parts because that is just an inherent issue with large die designs. No matter how tight your designs, defective limited yield issues are die-size dependent.
  • ilt24 - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    "why would they opt for a single die over a MCM?"

    Because it performs better.
  • witeken - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    Do you follow me on Twitter, bro:)?
  • CaedenV - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    We all know that Intel can do great things. The question right now is availability. How many of these will be pushed back to 2019, and will we see more than 2 of each of these new products available for the whole world to fight over.
  • HStewart - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link

    What I found most interesting is

    1. 20+ hour battery life in Laptop - It looks like Intel is acting of Vaporware - Windows on ARM

    2. 28 Core EMIB - does this mean we have 28 core laptop coming in the future. One thing it surely means is that EMIB is the future - maybe even in desktops.
  • sarahkevin - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - link

    Such an amazing event thanks https://www.anandtech.com for sharing the review
  • Christopher Newman - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - link

    After looking into Intels 28-core 56-thread CPU .. it looked like Intel scrambled to put something together rather than have something readily available. A closer look reveals it uses the same socket set as the 8176 and 8180 Intel Xeon Platinum Socket LGA 3647 at 28 Cores and 56 Threads. It's basically a Xeon overclocked to 5Ghz and rigged with an extreme cooling solution (Chiller) to keep from frying the chip. Considering this socket type and CPU this will be a very niche market for people that want to spend $7,000 to $10,000 on a server CPU alone versus maybe $1700 to $1900 for the new Threadripper 2? I also found it sketchy at best that Intel wouldn't show the physical processor where AMD gladly displayed it's product. Does Intel really have a next generation processor to compete with AMD or is this a smoke screen to buy time for Q3? It seems apparent that Intel does not have real consumer grade processor to compete with Threadripper 2 as of yet.

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