AMD is ramping things up … kick Intel while it’s down! Hahaha …
AMD is going ahead with its plans to launch a new HEDT platform chipset dubbed X499, according to a HD Technologia report. Originally rumored to launch alongside the 2nd Generation Ryzen Threadripper family, X499 was delayed indefinitely, and the current X399 chipset continued as AMD’s premier HEDT chipset, with existing motherboards receiving BIOS updates to support 2nd Gen Threadrippers, and some motherboard manufacturers launching newer models with beefed up CPU VRM designs to better cope with the 24-core and 32-core Threadrippers.
AMD X499 is reportedly back on the company’s roadmap, and slated for a CES 2019 unveiling (January). What’s interesting here is AMD sticking to the model number “499” after it emerged that Intel’s next HEDT chipset could be named “X599.” There’s no information on what X499 brings to the table, but there are two big areas for improvement: first, the downstream PCI-Express connectivity needs to be updated to current PCI-Express gen 3.0 standards; and second, unless Threadripper WX processors are hardwired to only support quad-channel memory; X499 could introduce 8-channel memory, which could make it even more competitive against Intel’s upcoming 28-core HEDT processor that has 6-channel memory.
Source: HD Technologia via TPU
