News Ryzen 8000 Strix Point APU Comes Forth With 12 Zen 5 Cores

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Next-generation AMD Ryzen 8000 (Strix Point) APU has surfaced on the MilkyWay@home database.

Ryzen 8000 Strix Point APU Comes Forth With 12 Zen 5 Cores : Read more

 

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Upgrading their monolithic die APUs to 12 cores seems overdue. For the vast majority of laptop tasks, 8 cores / 16 threads seems ample. But, to compete on those multithreaded benchmarks, and for more intensive work like compiling large software packages, the extra cores should definitely help.

 

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After seeing this, I wondered if AMD was in danger of getting sued by ASUS. Then I wondered "WTF is a Strix anyway?" and was kinda surprised by the answer:
"The strix (plural striges or strixes), in the mythology of classical antiquity was a bird of ill omen, the product of metamorphosis, that fed on human flesh and blood. It also referred to witches and related malevolent folkloric beings."

Crazy, eh? 😊

 

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Keep in mind, a code name is not the marketing name. Media is listing that, AMD is not selling it as that.

 

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After seeing this, I wondered if AMD was in danger of getting sued by ASUS. Then I wondered "WTF is a Strix anyway?" and was kinda surprised by the answer:
"The strix (plural striges or strixes), in the mythology of classical antiquity was a bird of ill omen, the product of metamorphosis, that fed on human flesh and blood. It also referred to witches and related malevolent folkloric beings."

Crazy, eh? 😊

The APU's full name is "Strix Point", which sounds like a geographical feature. A "point" is basically a peninsula.

Presumably, there's actually a place called "Strix Point", somewhere in the world, but I can't seem to find it because all my search results are for the APU.

BTW, there's a genus of Owls called Strix. Perhaps Strix point is so-named because of the owls which are found there.

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Strix (bird) - Wikipedia

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