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That's all just rumour at the moment. Frankly if they can launch I think they'd be insane to delay, every year they've had the rumours first then come out with
by noir_lord 6y ago
That's all just rumour at the moment.
Frankly if they can launch I think they'd be insane to delay, every year they've had the rumours first then come out with a body blow to Intel, that momentum has been building and they've finally started to get real mind share for the first time in nearly a human generation so it would be silly to lose that now.
Also if I had to guess why they put these out it's because production improvements have meant they've got more available high quality dies than they had at the start so it makes sense to get a last hurrah off the line and it preserves the price points for each back to somewhere near where they where at launch.
- redisman 6y agoAgreed - they've been releasing 3000 series CPUs all year so I wouldn't read any tea leaves based on this launch. 3300X and 3100X launched just a month ago and people weren't panicking then. They have the capability to manufacture more of Zen2 so why not do it. I'd imagine a "new" product sells much better than a few years old one even if its just a re-brand with a slight overclock.
- noir_lord 6y agoIt would be smart to capitalise while Intel is struggling because Intel won't struggle forever they have too much money and too long a history. I was around when the AMD64 was battering the P4 and then Intel came out with the C2D an architecture they are still using which gave them a decade of owning the top/mid in desktops, pretty much all the laptop market and vast majority of servers. Better to be out ahead when Intel comes back swinging.