AMD Threadripper 的誕生，原來不在2017 product list

本帖最後由 dull_dull 於 2017-9-6 21:06 編輯

AMD Ryzen Threadripper: The Fascinating Story Behind The Processor That Beat Intel

It is very much a CPU made by enthusiasts, for enthusiasts. The story behind it hasn't really been told before as we announced and launched Threadripper this summer in a very short period of time. Before May 2017, no one knew it existed, and by August it was in people's hands (Google translate: 這是一個由愛好者為愛好者製作的CPU。我們在今年夏天在很短的時間裡宣布並推出了Threadripper，之前的故事並沒有真正被告知。在2017年5月之前，沒有人知道它已經存在，到八月份是在人們手中 )

Threadripper timeline:

2014 – 2015: Work began on Threadripper concept, mostly in the initial team's spare time and without a dedicated business plan

2016: The team presented the idea to Jim Anderson just before the Computex tradeshow who had joined from Intel the previous year. Loved the idea so much the launch timeline was cut to 18 months to be the same year as Ryzen and EPYC.

May 2017: AMD officially announces Threadripper, which comes mostly as a surprise to the press.

August 2017: Threadripper goes retail

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My boss was sharing a taxi with Jim on the way to Computex 2016 and mentioned Threadripper to him then. He loved it, gave it the green light and found a way to get it on the roadmap. He believed in the idea, especially the way it leveraged existing technology we were using for Ryzen and EPYC,

The existence of the EPYC server CPU enabled us to create Ryzen Threadripper, but Threadripper was not part of the original 2017 AMD product roadmap. That only included the Ryzen 3, 5 and 7 ranges of 4, 6 and 8-core CPUs, plus versions of EPYC ranging from eight to 32 cores.

I asked for two things – the specifications and also how quickly we could build it. I fell in love with it seeing the specifications, but the timeline was disappointing as it originally pointed at 2018 for launch. I immediately asked them to pull it in by about a year – so summer 2017.