AMD tried to troll Intel yesterday by providing forty winners of the company's Core i7-8086K sweepstakes the chance to trade their prize for a Threadripper 1950X, noting that it's additional cores, cache, and PCIe lanes. The incidental statement created it sound as if Intel's time had passed, like associate aging maven (Kobe Bryant's final season, if anyone desires a degree of reference), which AMD was able to take the reigns.