Lisa Su shows off the company's first 7-nanometer chip.
Lisa Su shows off the company's first 7-nanometer chip.
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AMD announces 32-core Threadripper CPU, coming in the fall

Advanced Micro Devices has had a pretty good year with its Zen-based processors. The Ryzen line of consumer CPUs (central processing units) has shipped more than 5 million units since launching in March 2017.

Now the Santa Clara, California-based company is readying its next generation of CPUs and graphics processing units (GPUs). It will build those chips in a new 7-nanometer manufacturing process (which delivers smaller, faster, and more power-efficient chips) for sampling later this year and full launch in 2019.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.