It's been so long, it's weird seeing AMD release actual CPU products.

They did release them in the past also, but since they had a bad performing core architecture, nobody took them as noteworthy news. Now with the Zen core, being good in general performance and very good in power consumption, everything it touches, it is a win. I bet that consoles will get a very nice boost if they would get a 8 core / 16 threads Zen 2 on 7nm with Navi or whatever GPU AMD will have in 1-2 years time. Sure, all of this coupled with HBM3, like a boss.

yeeeman:

They did release them in the past also, but since they had a bad performing core architecture, nobody took them as noteworthy news. Now with the Zen core, being good in general performance and very good in power consumption, everything it touches, it is a win. I bet that consoles will get a very nice boost if they would get a 8 core / 16 threads Zen 2 on 7nm with Navi or whatever GPU AMD will have in 1-2 years time. Sure, all of this coupled with HBM3, like a boss.

It was just amd building hype and us waiting and then they delivered the crap that is Piledriver. AMD in general was a lot of hype up and talk and then just failing to hit expectations.

This could make for some very good AMD based NAS's and Mini-ITX/Pico-ITX boards...