AMD Info! HBM-equipped Radeon this quarter! Zen CPU architecture in 2016

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I hope you didn't thought that it was over, because there's still some rumors and "news".

AMD’s Radeon R9 Nano Smiles For The Camera – Benchmarked At 26.6 Frames Per Second On Unigine Heaven 4K Benchmark

http://wccftech.com/amd-r9-nano-pictures-unigine-heaven-benchmark/

The original source, in chinese (I think) is http://iyd.kr/756

Read the whole story at the like above, but the summary is that based on this slide from AMD (hence why the claimed official numbers):

And knowing that Fury Nano is a 175W card, they extrapolate that Nano's performance numbers is 175W x 0.152fps/W at Unigine Heaven = 26.6 fps

 

AMD Confirms Completing Two 14/16nm FinFET Product Designs

http://www.overclock3d.net/articles/cpu_mainboard/amd_have_taped_out_their_first_14nm_finfet_products/1

AMD announced this Thursday that they have taped out their first products using a FinFET processing node at their earnings conference call this year. While AMD have not confirmed what products they have taped out, it is more than likely that it is either AMD's first Zen based CPU or perhaps even a next generation GPU. 

AMD's CEO Lisa Su said that they "have actually just taped-out our first couple of FinFET designs,” meanings that the majority of the investment required in creating these products has already been made. 

For those who are unaware a "tape-out" is the final stage of the design cycle of an integrated circuit, meaning that AMD will be at a stage where they will be able to get their first production sample of these chips within the next few months. 

Typically it takes 9 months to a year for a product to move from it's initial tape-out to mass production, so if AMD have taped-out these products within the last few months we can expect to see new FinFET based products around late Q3 2016 or early Q4 2016.

 

And finally, it's not news or a rumor but an observation: with AMD's Zen launching next year at 14nm and Intel announcing the new Kaby Lake processors at 14nm again (because they are having such troubles going to 10nm), it will be the first time in ages that AMD and Intel will compete at the same node process.