Pemalite said:
haxxiy said:
I think there will be an improved Zen next year with ~10% higher frequency and higher memory speeds, perhaps just before Cannon Lake if Intel's 10 nm comes relatively yearly, but I don't see a 7 nm Zen 2 before mid 2019, unless the improved Zen on 14 nm really is an architectural change. |
We should get Zen+/Zen 2 next year in 2018.
I think AMD's goal is to start iterating upon their chips on a yearly cadence now.
CEO of AMD, Dr. Lisa Su did a "Ask me anything" on reddit and stated they have a big team working on Zens successor.
CPU designs take a long time, Zen was being worked on as far back as 2012 and unveilved in 2015, so zens successor has likely been planned and worked on for a few years already.
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Well, we will see if they can tape out their designs this year yet. As I mentioned to JEMC, I just don't think they can, because somewhere, somehow, there will surely be delays. Even Intel and Samsung have their setbacks and end up not matching up to their roadmaps, AMD and Global Foundries even more so. Even Zen was late by +-6 months, after all, same with Vega 10, and that's on a somewhat mature process, not one which still is mostly on paper.
