Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
“In 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. No, I didn’t switch to ARM yet, but I’m now rocking an AMD Threadripper 3970x. My ‘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,” he stated. What makes this story big is the fact that the “Zen 2” microarchitecture, and a processor with a similar multi-core architecture to AMD’s EPYC enterprise processors, is now being used by the creator of the most popular enterprise operating system.