Available in Q3. On to the meat of the conference, detailing soon-to-be-available products, Jim Anderson, head of the computing and graphics group, announced that AMD is releasing second-generation Ryzen Threadripper CPUs.

The present 1950X tops out at 16 cores and 32 threads that run at a peak 4GHz. Intel has just announced a 28-core jobbie destined for release later this year. Trumping both is the second-generation Ryzen Threadripper. Based on the 12nm Zen+ architecture and enhanced Precision Boost feature present on the new Ryzens, the standout feature is provision for 32 cores and 64 threads.