Speculations and rumors regarding the Zen architecture are now gone thanks to AMD finally revealing their next-gen Summit Ridge processor at Computex 2016. Dr. Lisa Su, AMD President and CEO revealed specifications and detail’s on Zen’s different configurations. “This product is 8 cores, 16 threads, it is FinFET technology, and its integrated as part of our new AM4 desktop platform. Zen is a new high-performance CPU that scales across multiple market segments, and we’re working very hard on our server version of Zen, which is also going very well.”
The new CPU is built on a 14nm process which will come 8 cores and 16 threads along with 40% more instructions per clock than its previous Bulldozer architecture. The CPU will also be on the AM4 platform that will also support DDR4 memory. The improvement over the new Summit Ridge architecture will allow AMD to take on Intel head to head in the CPU Market.
Dr. Su discussed Zen’s segmentaion across multiple platforms from APUs as well as Embedded markets to Servers. “As we bring the high-performance CPU to life, we’re also going to integrate Zen with our high-performance graphics in our next-generation APUs. So after Bristol Ridge, you will see integrated APUs with Zen and our GPU architectures. And you’ll also see Zen across a number of embedded markets. The power of Zen’s grounds-up design allows us to scale it across performance segments as well as low-power markets.”
AMD is to send out Zen samples within the next few weeks with more to come in Q3 2016.
Dr. Su ended her talk saying “You will see much more from us in the coming months as we move towards launch”
B2G Says: AMD brings new players to the competition is great for the market specially its consumers. Whether or not AMD is successful in re-taking the throne, Intel and Nvidia are forced to answer either by relying on their current products(Skylake and Pascal) or lower down its pricing to combat AMD altogether hence, the benefit towards consumers as not only they will see price drops but also have a wide selection of products thanks to AMD spicing up the competition.
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show us amd, that you can be cheaper than intel but would be on par. show us!
AMD’s response :v
Q3 2016. Maybe at future events. Hopefully it wont be delayed 🙁