AMD new 7nm CPUs and graphics cards

AMD is starting “Zen 2 CPU” processors and has a 7-nanometer Radeon card in the lab.

AMD told investors that it’s sampling next-gen Zen 2 processors with 7-nanometer tech in preparation for a launch in 2019. The company is also testing a Radeon Instinct machine learning graphics cards that use 7-nanometer Vega-based technology. The GPUs will be manufactured by TSMC, said AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su, but the company will also use Global Foundries, presumably for processors and other products.

AMD recently launched its second-generation Zen+ chips, which uses 12-nanometer tech (technically a refined version of its current 14-nanometer tech).

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Looking at AMDs X86 roadmap, they have introduced ‘Zen 2’ as their next generation chip built on an entirely new 7nm architecture, we should expect to see this in perhaps a year or two – with it already rumoured to be complete right now. If they are able to achieve the claims they have set it, AMD will surely upset the current CPU market.

Zen: 14nm

Zen+: 12nm

Zen 2: 7nm

Zen 2, meanwhile, will move to a 7-nanometer manufacturing process. TSMC reportedly leads the race to develop that tech, which uses bleeding-edge deep and extreme ultraviolet lithography. It was a bit of a surprise that AMD would use TSMC for its graphics tech rather than GlobalFoundries, which AMD spun off itself in 2009.

If AMD can hit its targets, it’ll put a lot of heat on Intel, which will only be introducing 10-nanometer tech by 2019. Intel has said that its tech is a “generation ahead” of 10-nanometer tech from other firms, but even if that’s accurate, 7-nanometer chips would erase that gap. According to leaked slides, AMD’s next-gen Vega graphics tech has double the bandwidth of its current GPUs.

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