With both the Xbox One and PS4 packing GCN-based hardware, it's fair to say AMD has the high-end console market covered. So, it's no surprise Zhongshan Subor, a China-based electronics company, wants AMD in its own console, the "SUBOR", which it plans to release by the end of the year.

There are few gambles in the tech world as big as spending billions to build a new computer processor from scratch. Former AMD board member Robert Palmer supposedly compared it to Russian roulette: "You put a gun to your head, pull the trigger, and find out four years later if you blew your brains out."

Six years ago AMD loaded the gun and pulled the trigger, dramatically restructuring itself internally in a mad bid to escape a disaster of its own making. Now we've seen the results and, instead of dying, AMD has a savvy new CPU microarchitecture, Zen, that's the foundation of the shockingly good new series of Ryzen processors. They're so good, in fact, that they could pose a real challenge to Intel's incumbent dominance and change what the computer market looks for the next few years.

We've been waiting for more info on AMD's hardcore, 16-core CPU known as Threadripper since it was announced. Now we know exactly when we'll get it, and how much it'll cost.

Here's the Australian prices and release dates for AMD's new top-of-the-line, high-performance desktop CPUs.