Allen
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On the CPU competition front: Not a whole lot happening in the very near term:
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Intel Comet Lake-S arrives Q1 2020 with 10 Cores and LGA1200 socket
The new Intel CPUs will require [new] 400-series motherboards as the socket has been changed to LGA1200.
based on Skylake cores, meaning, it is still 14nm fabrication process.
Other articles indicate that to get the speed up a bit across all cores, Intel will be raising power requirements (only matters if energy costs are high).
Some articles "guesstiimate" that Intel's 7nm products will arrive in 2022.
Previous rumors indicate AMD will be releasing their 7nm 16-core/32-thread Ryzen 9 gaming CPU later this year. Also, AMD seems to be working on a 5nm CPU for "maybe" 2021(?).
All in all, believable rumors have become less common the last few weeks.