HW News: AMD Kills Z490 Platform, Intel 28-Core CPU, & GPUs
2,652Computex 2018 yielded the death of AMD's Z490 platform, the arrival of Intel's 28-core CPU, 8086K CPU, and more.
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This hardware news recap covers the killed launch of AMD's Z490 platform, but also talks the arrival of Threadripper 2. Further, with the arrival of Threadripper 2, it seems that Intel has awoken with a 28-core competitor to TR2. Intel is simultaneously pushing its i7-8086K CPU, which is functionally a binned i7-8700K.
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