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For years, AMD's Threadripper series has been synonymous with brute-force multi-core power. With the new Ryzen Threadripper 9980X, AMD is sharpening that edge even further, bringing 64 cores and 128 ...

With half as many CPU cores as its flagship cousin, AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 9970X ($2,499) is a lower-priced, lower-capacity processor than the leading Threadripper 9980X that still delivers extreme ...

AMD’s monstrous Threadripper CPU is back at Computex 2025 with both the Threadripper Pro 9000 WX series and the consumer-friendly Threadripper 9000 HEDT—both boasting a Zen 5 performance upgrade ...

Last week, AMD dropped the Threadripper 9000 series, and it is amazing, starting with its name. In the world of technology, product names often range from the blandly numerical to the abstractly ...

AMD's latest Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series arrives with a familiar formula: massive core counts, eye-watering specs, and price tags to match. Built on the Zen 5 microarchitecture, these chips pack up ...