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AMD Plans New High-end Ryzen CPUs, Will Feature 16 Cores, 36 Threads, Cheaper And Better Than Core i7-6950X

AMD's Ryzen CPUs have thrown a wrench into Intel's monopoly of the CPU market. The new AMD CPU's promises to bring more cores and threads which result in better performance at a lower price. So far, only the Ryzen 7 series has been released and benchmarks show that the AMD CPUs are consistently beating Intel processors in multi-threaded tasks and content creation at a significantly lower price. But it seems that AMD isn't stopping at Ryzen 7 as it plans to build a monster 16-core, 32-thread CPU.