A look at AMD's 6-year old bet that paid off in the Zen CPU microarchitecture inside the new Ryzen processors, which could pose a real challenge to Intel (Alex Cranz/Gizmodo)

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A look at AMD's 6-year old bet that paid off in the Zen CPU microarchitecture inside the new Ryzen processors, which could pose a real challenge to Intel  —  There are few gambles in the tech world as big as spending billions to build a new computer processor from scratch.

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