News Intel's Unannounced 34-Core Raptor Lake CPUs Displayed on Wafer

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Actually this is an early 24 core Raptor lake wafer. With Intel's yield rate, they need to engrave 34 to get 24 to work duck

 

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Can't tell what is Intel's plan, but it is possible that they may want to revive their HEDT segment to compete with AMD's Threadripper. Current Raptor Lake chip is called 24 cores, but its just 8 P-cores with a bunch of E-cores as support. As compared to a proper 34 P-cores chip, the performance delta is going to be significant. Given that AMD sells proper 16 cores processor, I feel there's still a gap that Intel can fill between what they offer now. They can as usual cut down on key features, even with high core count.

There is no more threadripper, unless you are talking about the pro version which cost significantly more.

There are no plans for AMD to produce any threadripper CPU and chipsets. Intel has no plans too.

So, the competition will be workstation class cous between TR pro and xeon.