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AMD laid out the company’s future to their investors at their financial analyst day, yesterday, and what a future it is. While the company denied the legitimacy of the recently leaked investor presentation, which supposedly offered detailed specifics for their upcoming ‘Zen’ CPU architecture, they did offer some worthwhile details of said architecture. AMD’s ‘Zen’ is a completely new design, …

Ever since the first dual-core desktop CPUs started rolling out in 2005, the race to bring more computing cores to desktop processors has been on. Now, nearly a decade later, Intel has pushed ahead further than ever before with the release of the Core i7 5960X, their first ever consumer socketed eight-core CPU. While, this isn’t the first time we’ve …