Dup of <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23295975" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23295975</a>
Torvalds is famously "anti"-loyal. He's a pragmatist of the highest order, and since the threadripper is going to be better at compiling fast I can see the appeal so that's not the news here.<p>Two things stick out though:<p>1) He has said repeatedly that noise is the largest inhibitor of having a powerful computer, he doesn't like fan noise and I don't know if you can go fanless with a Threadripper.<p>2) Hopefully this means the AMD Zen architecture runs even better with Linux, I'm sure that will help the EPYC Rome series, which, in google cloud, are much more powerful than the intel based VMs.