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Maybe this is just the best they could do in that time? It's not super likely that they ever expected having to clock up these high core count cpus. It takes time to go back to the drawing board when you can't expect die shrinks to help solve your various scaling problems.

Anyone that would drop $700 for USB-C is someone with too much money. lol

Obviously that is for the Kids. We are all adults here, right?

While you are waiting, you could lookup and try the microcode patches that Microsoft put out for Windows. That would accomplish the same goal.

Maybe Intel is targeting a new segment? People like me who are lazy and don't want to get up to get cold beer? :)

No doubt we have needed this for a long time. I remember when the original Athlon (good old Slot A) came out and how over the next number of years it was exciting seeing Intel and AMD go back and forth with the performance crown. Obviously I am poking a bit of fun at Intel here. Anyone that is...

Intel has been complacent for years now. It's their own fault that AMD got back into the game with Ryzen.

It sounds like Intel got caught with their pants down.....again....

Can't fault them for wanting to make some money off the server market. They obviously don't want Threadripper to cannibalize the more profitable Epyc sales.

The lack of solder seems like a cash grab. They felt it was good enough and it would save them a few bucks. I don't think they expected major competition from AMD when that decision was made.

That's nuts. At least you had another power supply to fallback on.

Competition is nice, and we can only thank AMD for at least making Intel try again.

Nice to know that this beast can double as a space heater. Maybe the cooler can also double as Fridge for my beer.

This likely isn't like Microsoft buying other brands and killing it. At least I this purchase kind of falls in line with things Microsoft should be involved with. At least it's not like the Nokia purchase that was way too late in the game and led to nothing.

NIce that these were back to what they should have been for a while. Hopefully another sale comes up.

I'll take solder and glue over toothpaste and exotic cooling any day.

I have to imagine it did well enough in testing that AMD felt didn't impact performance too much. At least it doesn't need exotic cooling to seem impressive. :)