AMD Boasts First Mainstream 64-Core Processor at CES

LAS VEGAS — AMD revealed new processors for laptops, graphic processing units (GPU), and a new 64-core processor for servers and high-end desktop PCs at CES 2020. “If you look at the combination of products that we’ve launched over the last year and will launch in 2020, you will see over 20 products in production or in development in 7 nanometers (nm),” AMD CEO Lisa Su said during a press conference. LAS VEGAS — AMD revealed new processors for laptops, graphic processing units (GPU), and a new 64-core processor for servers and high-end desktop PCs at CES 2020. “If you look at the combination of products that we’ve launched over the last year and will launch in 2020, you will see over 20 products in production or in development in 7 nanometers (nm),” AMD CEO Lisa Su said during a press conference. “2020 is going to be a bigger year than 2019,” she said. The vendor kicked off its presentation by introducing what Su described as “the best laptop processor ever built,” the AMD Ryzen 4000 series. “This is the very first 7nm x86 mobile processor,” she said. In a form factor that fits into ultra thin laptops, the processor features up to eight cores and 16 threads, and AMD claims the new CPUs perform faster than Intel’s latest offering in single-thread, multi-thread, and graphics. “In the first quarter of 2020 you’ll see over a dozen designs with our Ryzen 4000 series, and you can expect over 100 designs over ultra thin, gaming, as well as commercial throughout 2020,” Su said. AMD also revealed its next generation graphics card, the Radeon 5600 and 5700 series that will be commercially available later this month. The 5600 GPU is targeted to gamers with 36 compute units, a base clock speed of 1375 MHz, a boost clock speed of 1560 MHz, and 6 GB of DDR6. The chipmaker arguably saved the biggest news for the end of its event when it revealed its third-generation AMD Ryzen Threadripper processor. After releasing 24-core and 32-core Threadripper processors in 2019, AMD showed off the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, which features 64 cores, 128 threads, a base clock speed of 2.9 GHz, and a boost clock speed as high as 4.3 GHz. Su called it the “very first 64-core processor in the mainstream in a desktop form factor.” The Ryzen Threadripper 3990X will be commercially available on Feb. 7 at $3,990. “We are absolutely committed to delivering the very best in high-performance computing,” Su said at the conclusion of the press conference. “You can expect there will be a lot more from AMD this year, including the next-generation consoles that will also be launched here in 2020. Our goal will be to continue pushing the envelope in high performance.”