A seeming uh-oh from MSI coincides with the rumours floating around of yet another third gen Threadripper, this time a 64 core 128 thread behemoth based on the 7nm Zen 2 architecture which will likely put further pressure on team blue.
This week, a video from MSI introducing their TRX40 Creator motherboard went live, which fortunately enough for us showed a distant shot of CPU usage on task manager. The video has since been removed and replaced with an edited version, but wccftech was able to snag a screenshot beforehand, where we can spot 8 vertical and 16 horizontal tiles, indicating 128 total threads.
With the TRX40 Creator being a single socket motherboard, this rules out the possibility of a 2nd Gen EPYC CPU being used. With that in mind, this could be our first confirmation of a 64-core, 128-thread TR 3990X, which should get an announcement sometime after the 25th of November, when the TR 3960X and TR 3970X officially hit retail.