The HEDT war between Intel and AMD really kicked off last year as the former introduced its Core-X family (with up to 18 cores) and the latter debuted Ryzen Threadripper (with up to 16 cores). This year, the core counts are set to jump again with AMD announcing the mind-blowing 32-core/64-thread Ryzen Threadripper (reportedly called the 2990X)

Source: Hot Hardware – Alleged Ryzen Threadripper 2990X 32-Core Beast CPU Shows Up For Preorder Online