It's funny, to say the least, how these articles pop up merely days before the 1920x launch. The press just received their Threadrippers a few days ago...

Edit: No I'm not saying this is Intel, but it's sad that their release will be overshadowed by this. I really hoped for AMD to finally catch up with Intel because we all could profit from a second big player in the game.

What? Plenty of people are running simple test suites and stress tests on new CPUs to write up. This is nothing out of the ordinary at all.