Linux creator turned to non-Intel CPU in 15 years

Linus Benedict Torvalds said in the news of the next Linux kernel, Linux 5.7-rc7, the release candidate version of Linux 5.7, that the main PC CPU was changed to AMD instead of Intel in 15 years.

Linus Torvalds said the most exciting thing this week was the upgrade of the main computer. According to him, the CPU in the new PC is AMD’s 3rd generation Ryzen Threadripper 3970X. After 15 years of using a non-Intel CPU. Allmodconfig also finishes three times faster than before.

It is not clear which computer Torvalds was using before. However, in May 2014, the CPU page fault handling caused the all-mode configuration to take about 30 seconds. Not only Torvalds, but Greg Kroah-Hartman, well known as a major developer of the Linux kernel, has also switched to Threadripper-based PCs. Related information can be found here .