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AMD X399 HEDT Platform May Be Announced at Computex, Launching Along side Intel’s X299 – Boards Already In Production

On the X399 front, we have been getting a lot of details lately. Alleged specifications of AMD X399 HEDT Ryzen processors were leaked yesterday and we got the chipset block diagrams a while back too. AMD’s X399 platform will have a lot in common with the Snowy Owl “Naples” chips that were reported just few hours back but they are configured for a new socket, not packaged in BGA as form factor as the Snowy Owl based processors. The chips will have various configurations, we can expect anywhere from 8, 12, 16 cores which would compete directly against Intel’s X299 Skylake X series processors that will come in 6, 8, 10 and 12 core variants.

The most interesting fact is that AMD is eyeing an X399 launch window alongside Intel’s X299 so we can guess that these chips arrive as early as next month. Intel’s X299 platform will also be announced at the Computex floor, followed by NDA lift on 12th June and finally market availability on 26th June. We can expect the fight between the two HEDT platforms (X299 vs X399) to be really brutal, giving both CPU makers a chance to pit their best high-end desktop chip against one another. We have also heard from our sources that AMD is already planning to bring forth an army of X399 boards which are already in production.