Intel will continue to face stiff competition from AMD, as the company have revealed that Ryzen was a worst case scenario, and the new ryzen cpus (build on the Zen 2 / Zen+ architecture) will be notably faster, featuring higher IPC and more aggressive clock speeds. Also, AMD have revealed that ThreadRipper started off as a passion project, and that the company hadn't even intended to release threadripper at all during 2017. In fact, originally only Ryzen and Epyc CPUS had been planned, SOURCES - https://www.facebook.com/Der8auerEcc/photos/a.1516142948463051.1073741833.372492366161454/1516142931796386/?type=3&theater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp01gqbUCQQ https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2017/09/05/amd-ryzen-threadripper-the-fascinating-story-behind-the-processor-that-beat-intel/#65006702230c http://www.redgamingtech.com/ for more gaming news, reviews & tech http://www.patreon.com/redgamingtech - if you want to help us out! http://www.facebook.com/redgamingtech - Follow us on Facebook! https://twitter.com/RGTCrimsonRayne - Paul's Twitter Royalty Free Music - www.audiomicro.com/royalty-free-music