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One of the criticisms levied at AMD last year was that it released its new Threadripper Pro platform in September but it was vendor-locked at the time to the Lenovo Thinkstation P620. The P620 seems to have sold like hot cakes, and the system design is really neat (we have one in for testing), but the fact that interested parties only have Lenovo as an option was considered a limiting factor for some. Fast forward to the beginning of 2021, and AMD has announced that TR Pro will be made available at retail, allowing other OEMs to also build systems. Alongside this, three motherboard manufactur...

(Credit: AMD) AMD’s upcoming Ryzen Threadripper Pro CPUs don't arrive until March, but we now know how much the processors will cost.  If you’re an interested buyer, this new hardware won't come cheap. The most powerful CPU out of the three, the 64-core 3995WX, is $5,489. The 32-core 3975WX, meanwhile, will retail at $2,749, while the 16-core 3955WX will go for $1,149.  As you may have noticed, the 64-core and 32-core CPUs have jumped in price over the previous Threadripper chips from 2019. Back then, the 3990X arrived for $3,990 while the 3970X came in at $1,999. (In the same year, th...

Of the scores of industries that the COVID-19 pandemic has upended, the PC industry is one of the few that looks to emerge significantly better off than it was in the "before times." Shipments of PCs are already up significantly, transformed seemingly overnight from a stagnant technology being pushed aside by smartphones to an essential tool for an era of learning and working from home. And that era looks to be long-lasting, if not permanent.  If the second personal computing revolution is going to stick, though, it needs worthy hardware. Key component manufacturers—notably, AMD, Intel, an...

Laptops using new chips to be available in February.

AMD Is Bringing Threadripper Pro, 8-Channel Motherboards to Market AMD Is Bringing Threadripper Pro, 8-Channel Motherboards to Market By Joel Hruska on January 13, 2021 at 8:41 am This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. AMD will bring its eight-channel Threadripper Pro systems to the retail market, opening up the segment. Previously, the eight-channel Threadripper Pro variant was only available to OEMs (we’ve got a review coming on one of these Lenovo systems, with comparison against the 3990X). AMD’s Threadripper and Threadrip...