It seems both Intel and AMD will be increasing core counts on their mainstream desktop processors. We've know for a while that Intel will be releasing an 8-core socket LGA1151 processor, but it seems now AMD might be increasing core counts above 8-cores on their desktop processors.
At Computex 2018 AMD announced it 32-core, 64-thread 2nd generation Ryzen Threadripper processor. Since then we learned that this processor will be built on the 12 nm process and will be called Ryzen Threadripper 2990X. According to the latest rumors AMD will be releasing these new processors on August 13th.
A new variant of the "Spectre" CPU vulnerability has been discovered by security researchers Vladimir Kiriansky and Carl Waldspurger. This make them eligible for the $100,000 bounty Intel is offering researchers to sniff out vulnerabilities in their processors. This new vulnerability is chronicled under CVE-2018-3693, is among 12 new CVEs Intel will publish later this week.
It looks like Intel will be ending their "Extreme Edition" brand extension, which they have used to denote their flagship products in the client segment. This included processors as well as their NUCs. With Intel retiring this brand extension it could mean the end to their iconic Intel Skull and the black and silver packaging. No one really knows what Intel would be replacing this brand extension with, if anything at all.
When Intel announced their Limited Edition Core i7-8086K processor they also announced a contest giving away 8086 of these processors to lucky winners. Well to spark some controversy AMD is having a contest of their own, offering their Threadripper 1950X HEDT chip in exchange for the Core i7-8086K.
Two new Ryzen 2000 series processors have shown up in Geekbench, these are the Ryzen 5 2500X and Ryzen 3 2300X. To start things off the Ryzen 5 2500X has a base clock of 3.6 GHz and boosts up to 4.0 GHz. This chip will feature SMT.
It looks like Intel processors are vulnerable again as security researchers have discovered a vulnerability that is affecting all modern Core and Xeon processors. This is an exploit of a performance optimization feature called "lazy FP state restore," which when exploited to sniff out sensitive information, including cryptographic keys used to protect sensitive data.
It looks like Intel is ready to refresh their "Basin Falls" HEDT platform (LGA2066 client high-end desktop). They plan to do this with a new 22-core chip. This is not Skylake HCC (20 tiles, up to 18 cores), or Skylake HCC (30 tiles, up to 28 cores), but a brand new die with four more tiles than the current Skylake HCC silicon, all of which are actual cores.
Just a year after their release, Intel is retiring their Kaby Lake-X processors. These include the Core i5-7640X and Intel Core i7-7740X, both of which were quad-core entry-level chips in Intel's HEDT platform.
A list of model numbers of upcoming AMD Ryzen processor models has been leaked. They reveal pretty much AMD's entire second wave of Ryzen 2000 series processors. So let's start with the big boys in the Ryzen Threadripper line which will be the Ryzen Threadripper 2900X (YD290XA8U8QAF), Ryzen Threadripper 2920X (YD292XA8UC9AF), and the top-dog Ryzen Threadripper 2950X (YD295XA8UGAAF)
