Surprise! AMD Resurrects 'Consumer' Threadripper, in New CPUs Up to 64 Cores

pcmag.com:

AMD just stoked the flames of the high-end desktop processor wars—no, make that poured a barrel of gasoline them—with the announcement of Threadripper's return to the consumer high-end desktop (HEDT) chip market. Meet the new Ryzen Threadripper 7000X series: Starting at a spicy $1,499, these new Threadripper processors straddle the line between consumer-level and workstation-grade silicon, with the promise to drive performance closer to those latter high-end professional chips.

Now, don't confuse plain "Threadripper" with "Threadripper Pro." AMD is launching these new Threadripper processors, targeting both the OEM prebuilt-desktop and PC DIY markets, in parallel with its Threadripper Pro 7000WX series, which are designed for professional workstations for the highest-end creative, scientific, and machine-learning applications. We have some preview tests with, and more info on, the new Threadripper Pro 7000WX line in a separate first-looks article.

The stage has changed considerably for the high-end processor market in recent years. Not long ago, both AMD and Intel produced extreme consumer components that they marketed as HEDT processors. This acronym referred to processors that existed specifically in that niche between high-end consumer processors and entry-level workstation chips. For AMD, that was traditionally Threadripper, which endured through 1000X, 2000X, and 3000X generations, the last in 2019. For Intel, that was the Core X-Series, last seen on the X299 platform also in 2019, in the form of the flagship "Cascade Lake-X" Core i9-10980XE Extreme Edition.

AMD and Intel, however, both brought the production of HEDT processors to a quiet end, and it’s now been about four years since we’ve seen a new one launch.