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		webaholic on May 31, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All AMD ThreadRipper CPU's will have 64 PCIe Lanes But it did. Intel reduced their 8 core processor prices from 1000$ to 600$. See their new lineup: http://imgur.com/a/LSpau

vonklaus on May 31, 2017 [–]

Basically Intel has been greedy / hasn't had the competition. The result of Moore's law is still quite possible it seems. Even with a slowdown in chip density; computing prices can fall on similar historical curves now that AMD is competing.

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