7 Nanometer Chips and 64 Core AMD Threadripper | NextBigFuture.com

At CES AMD has announced the 64 core AMD EPYC line, (3990X). It will have super-high GHz clocks, and only $4,000 a package pricing. Nextbigufuture reader and commenter Goayguy notes that combining the AMD super chip with 512 GB of RAM ($3,000, ECC, DDR4-3200) and 4 TB of NVME ($2,000) and a top-top shelf Nvidia dual graphics-and-compute card ($1,800 for pair), the motherboard to support ($600) and case-and-power-supply ($600) would cost ,.. just shy of $12,000. The system would surpass the world’s reigning supercomputer from 20 years ago. The top supercomputer 20 years ago was the ASCI White at 13