AMD is taking on Intel with not just one or two but a total of five high-end desktop CPUs that promise far greater performance than Intel's offerings at lower TDPs and price points. The new Ryzen 3000-series is being fabricated on TSMC's 7nm process and offers a multi-chiplet layout with improved IPC, higher core counts, larger cache sizes, and support for PCIe 4.0. The Ryzen 3000-series will go on sale starting July 7.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-3rd-generation-signals-deep-trouble-for-Intel.422294.0.html
And when Intel releases new CPUs - AMD simply opens the final16-core design at an appropriate price point to beat Intel into the ground (with same two dies but fully enabled with 8 cores each rather than 6 cores each in a current 12-core CPU).
Nice! I am sick of Intel's security holes lately. Meltdown, Spectre, MDS... I am waiting for Ryzen 2 laptops and APUs now.