Curious story around the AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors, which would have been a project developed by the engineers in parallel, regardless of the direction and in their free time.

AMD Ryzen processors have hit the market to shake Intel's monopoly in recent years has been clear, given the lack of competition from AMD. The Ryzen 3, Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 have been a blow to Intel and the arrival of the Ryzen Threadripper processors points to being a tough competitor for the company. Intel processors, such as the [amazon_textlink asin = 'B072Y2Z3PZ' text = 'i9 7900X' template = 'ProductLink' store = 'hardwa028-21 ′ marketplace =' ES 'link_id =' 8b46d2c9-930a-11e7-b062- cba3fe1eb70f '] with ten cores, it costs $ 1000, while the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X solution is priced at $ 1000 as well, although this processor has eighteen cores.

AMD has implemented modular processors, something that has generated great success for the company, allowing it to offer processors with up to 32 cores (although these are reserved for EPYC). The new processors from AMD, intended for the professional segment, would not have entered AMD's initial plans with respect to the Zen architecture. These unofficial processors have emerged thanks to alternative work for a year by the company's engineers, who They developed them behind the back of the management until they had them ready and once they were ready, they presented them to the management and of course, the management has seen the gates of heaven open wide.

Sarah Youngbauer, member of the AMD communication team has spoken to Forbes and said: 'There is a unique story around Threadripper, but it bears witness to the spirit that is emerging in the company as we go through this transition since 2014, when we announced our Zen architecture. It's not really a story of long-term planning and work plans or big R&D budget, it's much more of a person than that and it came from a skunkworks project and a small group of workers from AMD who had a vision for a processor that they really wanted to deliver in terms of a high-performance PC.

They worked on it in their spare time and it was really a project born out of passion that lasted about a year before they looked for the green light of directions, something that is absolutely unusual. The result, several years later, has been the Ryzen Threadripper, which is the most powerful desktop processor in the world. Without this group of people, Threadripper might not have happened '

Source: Forbes