Linux chief says he's picking AMD over Intel

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    • Jan 2015
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    Linux chief says he's picking AMD over Intel

    Linux overseer Linus Torvalds has revealed he has replaced the Intel processor on his PC with the 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970x.

    Furthermore, he dropped hints that he hopes to someday have an ARM-powered system.

    In his weekly State of the Kernel blog post, Torvalds announced that the development process of the Linux 5.7 rc7 has been hassle-free and smooth, and that a regular release looks on the cards for next week.

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    AMD over Intel

    ā€œIn fact, the biggest excitement this week for me was just that I upgraded my main machine, and for the first time in about 15 years, my desktop isn’t Intel-based," Torvalds wrote in his blog.

    ā€œNo, I didn’t switch to ARM yet, but I’m now rocking an AMD Threadripper 3970x.ā€

    "My ā€˜allmodconfig’ test builds are now three times faster than they used to be, which doesn’t matter so much right now during the calming down period, but I will most definitely notice the upgrade during the next merge window,ā€ he further added.

    There was no more information about the new system rig, but as the 3970x requires a sTRX4 socket which first appeared on motherboards in late 2019, The Register speculates that Torvalds has probably got a new PC.

    Whatever the case, Torvalds’ system processor has more cores than any currently offered by Intel.

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    Via: The Register



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