AMD has officially ascended back into the performance category with its Ryzen processor lineup, though anyone who thinks the company is finished climbing is in for a surprise. Rumor has it that AMD is readying a new Ryzen chip with 16 cores and 32 threads of processing resources. This monster processor will sit in a new platform that competes with Intel's X99 chipset for Broadwell-E and Haswell-E, and will serve as an in-between for AMD's regular Ryzen lineup and its server-based Naples platform.

According to Overclockers, AMD is planning a 16 core /32 Thread, quad channel behemoth. It is quick in the tests that Ryzen is already excelling at. The gaming issues that were causing the Ryzen AM4 CPU is to behave erratically. It's akin to a newer revision on a newer platform. This should be competing with the Xeon and of course 6950X Intel offers for $1700~$1800USD, but at about $1,000 USD if not less for some Skews. CPSs(sic) are physically big, about twice the size of surrent 6950X CPUs and a bit more perhaps.

AMD has neither confirmed nor denied a new processor chip in the making other than the server grade Naples and the AM4, WCCF Tech has learned.

Right now, Ryzen is just a CPU, but AMD will also launch Ryzen APUs (accelerated processing unit - a CPU with a built-in graphics processing unit in one chip). The APUs are essentially made for those who don't have or intend to buy a separate graphics card. Rumour has it that the Ryzen APU processors will have comparable graphics performance to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles - not bad going. Ryzen requires a new motherboard because it is compatible with the new AM4 socket which includes DDR4 memory support.

AMD will officially announce the new processor and platform at Computex. It has also been indicated that the chip around half the price of competitive Xeon CPUs, with an asking price of around US $1,000.

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