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> I would be surprised if they didn't rush development I thought the development cycle for a new CPU was between 2-3 years (hence the 2 teams, and tick tock th

> I would be surprised if they didn't rush development I thought the development cycle for a new CPU was between 2-3 years (hence the 2 teams, and tick tock thing). It's like adding new features late in the game for a webapp. Some things would be very easy (we need a new page for X). Some things would be very hard (I want you to rewrite the entire app from angular to react). My guess is something like changing core count is very very hard to do late in the game. Changing price, maybe changing overclock settings, those would be fairly easy. So I suspect if Intel didn't see threadripper coming (which I doubt) the thread counts were set years ago. However threadripper is making Intel drop the prices a bit.

paulmd 9y ago
Intel already makes these high-core-count CPUs for the Xeon market. What's different here is their presence in the HEDT lineup - but that is basically just blowing different feature-fuses in the chip and slapping them in a different box. There is no actual R&D required. Intel is afraid of these HCC chips cannibalizing their sales of more expensive Xeons, so they're holding back as long as possible and crippling key features. If you want ECC, for example, you have to buy a Xeon - or more realistically for many people, a Threadripper.