Holy shit lol, that has the subtlety of a brick to the face.

The irony is that Intel used multiple dies "stitched together" multiple times. The Yorkfield based Quad-core chips (Xeons included) being a Prime example where Intel "stitched together" two dual core chips.

Same went with Clovertown, Harpertown and Tigerton.

So they aren't speaking from ignorance.

Although AMD's interconnect "Mesh" is substantially more advanced than anything Intel used when dealing with multiple dies on a single substrate.

With that, Intel is in full damage control at the moment. And for good reason. Ryzen/Epyc is beastly and consumers are eating them up.

Needs more frequency and timing optimizations. With Zen 2 I think AMD will be golden ... 

AMD should stop investing some more in the original Zen and treat that as an experiment that went horribly good like Intel's knights Corner line and start focusing on pushing out Zen 2 by 2H 2018 ... 

It'll be the greatest day for AMD If Zen 2 can hit 5 GHz, support AVX-512 (like Skylake-X/SP) and TSX while getting some IPC improvements when we can finally put Pentiums, Celerons and i3's on death row or at least reform them ... 

If AMD can do all that then they also need to get globalfoundries shit together with high wafer supply to be able to flood the markets wih sub $100 high performing Zen 2 CPUs like China or other developing regions ... 

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.

Besides, since we know Zeppelin with have up to 48 cores, it seems like the Zen 2 CCX will have 6 cores instead of 4 cores (it wouldn't make much sense for the die to have 6 CCX given the way they work). So, I would guess Zen 2 will have 6, 9 and 12 core products on the consumer range. Would it be the first 9-core CPU, if it is the case?

Loll intel is feeling the heat now

A wild Fatslob appears!

That's my take as well. Frequency seems to be a hard wall that AMD can't push over at the moment, likely a result of being on an inferior process compared to Intel's 14nm.
The architecture should come into it's own now that they know what needs to be improved.

Let's see how Threadripper does with twice the DRAM bandwidth. For professional markets, servers, workstations, compute, super coputers... Sometimes more cores is better than frequency anyway.

I would think AMD has gained a big chunk of marketshare with Zen, which hopefully results in some profits... Which they really really need to fund their next adventures and start getting their Radeon group back on track.

I would assume Zen+/Zen 2 would share the same socket, so hopefully they iterate often and substantually.

Software could also start catching up and start being heavier threaded also. I wish dual-cores would die a horrible death already. Some games won't even boot anymore if you only have 2 threads.

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.

With a new week, comes a new round of news:

SALES & "SALES"/DEALS

The Steam top 10 games, two deals and one article about sales figures:

Steam top 10 games of last week

1. PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
2. Grand Theft Auto V
3. NieR:Automata
4. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
5. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition
6. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition
7. Dishonored 2
8. H1Z1: King of the Kill
9. Fallout 4
10. Hollow Knight

GOG.com starts the week with not one, but two deals:

• First, we have the weekly sale. It's a big one, capable of competing with the Steam sales: https://www.gog.com/promo/20170626_weekly_sale
• The other sale is about the publisher Retroism, with games like Hyperdimension Neptunia, for example: https://www.gog.com/promo/20170626_special_promo_retroism

Get Dead Cells for 31 percent off today
https://www.bundlestars.com/en/game/dead-cells
Dead Cells is still in Steam's Early Access right now, but people apparently already love it. It's cheaper than normal to get in on the action today, as you can get the game for 31 percent off at Bundle Stars.

>>The page says it's 27% off, but I use Euros, not Pounds or Dollars, so maybe the discount is different depending of the currency you use.

PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS has generated $100 million, has peaked at 230,000 concurrent users
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-has-generated-100-million-has-peaked-at-230000-concurrent-users/
Bluehole has announced that PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS has generated $100 million in revenue since its Early Access launch on March 23rd. PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS has attracted players from around the world with 24% of them based in the US, 19% in China, 6% in Germany, 6% in Russia and 4% in the U.K.

SOFTWARE

Square Enix congratulates Denuvo: “Thanks to you, people have to buy the game”
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/square-enix-congratulates-denuvo-thanks-to-you-people-have-to-buy-the-game/
Now here is something interesting. At Denuvo’s official website, there are three companies congratulating it. These three companies are: id Software, Crytek and Square Enix. And while id Software’s and Crytek’s comments are kind of neutral (after all, id Software has removed the Denuvo anti-tamper tech from DOOM), Square Enix’s comment is a bit more… salty?

MODS/EMULATORS

Rockstar Games issues an official statement regarding mods
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/rockstar-games-issues-an-official-statement-regarding-mods/
Rockstar Games has issued an official statement regarding mods. According to the statement, both Rockstar and Take-Two will generally (pay extra attention to “generally”) not take legal action against third-party projects involving Rockstar’s PC games that are single-player, non-commercial, and respect the intellectual property.

>>We'll find out soon how true is that, because...

OpenIV mod is back from the dead, new version is now available
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/openiv-mod-is-back-from-the-dead-new-version-is-now-available/
The team behind OpenIV has been talking with Rockstar Games in order to resolve all the issues surrounding its mod, and a new version of it has just been released. This new version of OpenIV appears to working fine in the single-player mode for Grand Theft Auto V, and can be obtain via its launcher.

Nintendo tries to explain why it shut down free fan project AM2R, and fails miserably
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/nintendo-tries-to-explain-why-it-shut-down-free-fan-project-am2r-and-fails-miserably/
In an interview with Waypoint, Nintendo of America’s President and COO, Reggie Fils-Aimé, tried to explain why the company decided to shut it down. And his reasoning was not that convincing.

CEMU 1.8.1b is now available, fixes full CPU load on one thread & improves overall game compatibility
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/cemu-1-8-1b-is-now-available-fixes-full-cpu-load-on-one-thread-improves-overall-game-compatibility/
The team behind the best WiiU emulator, CEMU, has released a new version of it. According to the release notes, CEMU 1.8.1b fixes an issue that caused full CPU load on one thread, and supports even more games than its previous version.

Super Mario 64 mod gives you the power of Super Mario Odyssey's cap possession
http://www.pcgamer.com/super-mario-64-mod-gives-you-the-power-of-super-mario-odysseys-cap-possession/
Super Mario Odyssey may be a Switch exclusive (and very obviously never coming to PC), but we can still throw Mario's cap around and possess objects as much as we like, thanks to modder Kaze Emanuar.

Dark Souls has a Fidget Spinner mod, Doom Souls out now
http://www.pcgamer.com/dark-souls-modder-brings-doom-to-lordran/
Hobbyist modder Abject has spent the past several months crafting some weird and wonderful Dark Souls mods, the best of which transport other games into the nightmarescape of Lordran.

GAMING NEWS

Titanfall 2 has over one million monthly active players, The War Games free DLC detailed
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/titanfall-2-has-over-one-million-monthly-active-players-the-war-games-free-dlc-detailed/
Respawn has detailed the sixth DLC for Titanfall 2, The War Games, that will be released for free to all Titanfall 2 owners on June 27th. This DLC will feature a new map (War Games), a new Live Fire map, a new Execution, will add a 3rd weapon slot for pilots, will add Titan Brawl to the permanent list of game modes, and will introduce Free Agents.

Visage is a new surreal psychological horror game, inspired by Konami’s cancelled P.T.
http://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/visage-is-a-new-surreal-psychological-horror-game-inspired-by-konamis-cancelled-p-t/
SadSquare Studio has released an official trailer for its upcoming surreal psychological horror game, Visage. Visage is inspired by Konami’s cancelled P.T. As with P.T., Visage takes place in an old, gigantic house where unfathomable horror hides behind the banalities of a normal, but ever-changing house.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance – Official E3 2017 Demo Walkthrough
http://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/kingdom-come-deliverance-official-e3-2017-demo-walkthrough/
Warhorse Studios has released a new video for Kingdom Come: Deliverance in which Tobi and ESO introduce us to its E3 2017 build. This video features almost one hour of gameplay footage and shows the complex quest structure of the game, a fighting tutorial, and a small skirmish.

Titanic: Honor and Glory – Third demo is now available to everyone
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/titanic-honor-and-glory-third-demo-is-now-available-to-everyone/
Four Funnels Entertainment has released a brand new demo for its Unreal Engine 4-powered title, Titanic – Honor and Glory. This new demo comes with support for both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift VR headsets, so we strongly suggest downloading in case you own one of them.

Cloud Imperium issues an official statement about its rumoured financial issues
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/cloud-imperium-issues-an-official-statement-about-its-rumoured-financial-issues/
A rumour arose this weekend, suggesting that Cloud Imperium was facing some financial issues. It appears however that this rumour was false, as Cloud Imperium has issued an official statement about this whole thing.

Pathfinder: Kingmaker hits its initial Kickstarter goal, gets new screenshots
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/pathfinder-kingmaker-hits-its-initial-kickstarter-goal-gets-new-screenshots/
Owlcat Games has announced that its crowdfunding campaign for Pathfinder: Kingmaker has raised $500K, meeting its initial goal. Through this success, the veteran team at Owlcat Games, strengthened by Chris Avellone for narrative game design, is assured to take players on an unforgettable tour through the infamous Stolen Lands.

Part two of the news:

Forza Motorsport 7 studio Turn 10 is 'learning how to become PC developers'
http://www.pcgamer.com/forza-motorsport-7-studio-turn-10-is-learning-how-to-become-pc-developers/
Microsoft announced at its E3 show that the upcoming racing sim Forza Motorsport 7 will be released for Windows 10 as well as the Xbox One, with a new dynamic weather system and "pretty new lighting effects," as James put it. In a video posted more recently by Nvidia, Turn 10 Studios executive producer Ryan Cooper talked a bit about how the new features will be realized on the PC, saying that "it's all about the details."

>>Who else believes that this statement is a bit... silly?

Wonderful point-and-click adventure Machinarium has been rebuilt with hi-res support and more
http://www.pcgamer.com/wonderful-point-and-click-adventure-machinarium-has-been-rebuilt-with-hi-res-support-and-more/
Machinarium, the point-and-click adventure about a bug-eyed robot named Josef and his girlfriend Berta, was originally released in 2009 and is very good—in fact, it was the game that hooked me on Amanita Design's later work, including Botanicula and Samorost 3. But it hasn't aged particularly well, mainly because it was built using Adobe Flash. So Amanita has updated it with a completely redone "Definitive Version" that's now available on Steam.

Scanner Sombre VR mode now available in beta
http://www.pcgamer.com/scanner-sombre-vr-mode-now-available-in-beta/
Scanner Sombre, as it turns out, hasn't sold very well, at least compared to Introversion's previous game: the 2-million-copies-sold-and-counting Prison Architect. By comparison, the developer's first-person cave-mapping game Scanner Sombre has only rustled up around 6,000, or in the words of Introversion's Chris Delay, "It's bombed".

Secret World Legends is available to play now
http://www.pcgamer.com/secret-world-legends-is-available-to-play-now/
Funcom's innovative, real-world-ish MMO The Secret World relaunches as the free-to-play Secret World Legends on Monday June 26, at least officially. A 'head start' weekend is taking place right now, a weekend that was originally just going to be open to beta testers and owners of the original game, but that is now open to all (yes, including you, Steve). What I'm saying is that The Secret World Legends has launched a little early, and you can sign up here.

Newly free-to-play Battleborn gets new PVP mode
http://www.pcgamer.com/newly-free-to-play-battleborn-gets-new-pvp-mode/
All of Battleborn's competitive multiplayer modes and maps recently went free-to-play, but developer Gearbox Software has shown that it won't stop there. The shooter recently introduced a new PVP option, which mixes parts of the Meltdown and Capture modes.

Rhythm platformer 140 adds new level in free update
http://www.pcgamer.com/rhythm-platformer-140-adds-new-level-in-free-update/
Jeppe Carlsen's rhythmic platformer 140 has just received a free update, around four years after the game came out. The update adds a new, "expansive" fourth level that features "original mechanics and a new boss fight", and that's not bad at all for the price of free. But the update bungs in a few other features, including cloud saving, trading cards, "less input lag and improved player character physics", and those are all nice things to have too.

Quake Champions will run through Steam, id Software confirms
http://www.pcgamer.com/quake-champions-will-run-through-steam-id-software-confirms/
In an audience Q&A blog published last week, an id Software spokesperson confirmed that Quake Champions will run through Steam. That might not seem revelatory, but since the current beta launches exclusively through Bethesda.net, many had suspected the final game would too.

Overwatch's PTR suggests that patch 1.13 may usher in Doomfist
http://www.pcgamer.com/overwatchs-ptr-suggests-that-patch-113-may-usher-in-doomfist/
Doomfist is coming to Overwatch eventually – that much is certain. The ongoing dilemma among the game's hardcore is the question of when. But it looks like we may be closer to the answer than ever, because a crashlog for the current Public Test Region (which is running the game with the still-forthcoming 1.13 patch), references both Doomfist and "Summer Games".

We Happy Few schedules 'bigger and better' Joy update for August
http://www.pcgamer.com/we-happy-few-schedules-bigger-and-better-joy-update-for-august/
Despite its somewhat slow Early Access start, Compulsion Games' Aldous Huxley-esque We Happy Few has spent the past several months working towards full release by introducing new areas and playstyle options. A new devblog has outlined where the survival horror game is headed next.

Jeez, the Price of 1080s went up by $65 where I live. Thank God I bought mine before the prices went up. The 1080Tis are still at their usual price though.

Starting to see Bitcoin miners as those little shits ruining it for everyone.