AMD Ryzen 2nd gen CPUs or “Ryzen Refresh” in Q1 2018 Will Support AM4 Motherboards

While it is confirmed that AMD is to Release Ryzen 2nd gen CPUs or “Ryzen Refresh” by Zen architecture in Q1 2018, there was this question if they need new chip or mother board or compatibility issues with current ryzen related hardware. Of course We are expecting to see a lot of new products in upcoming CES 2018 and one of them is the ryzen 2. After 2017 being a very shiny year for amd CPUs specially Ryzen 5 and ryzen 7, AMD’s Ryzen CPUs getting updates on performance, cache and frequency probably. AMD has said in the past that we will see a Zen 1 refresh before the jump to Zen 2 architecture and here it is the Ryzen 2nd gen.

Recently James Prior, who is a senior product manager at AMD, in an interview about Ryzen 2 the next generation AMD CPUs coming in 2018 and next generations of AMD Processors and the possible need for yet another motherboard upgrade for the users to be able to use the new products. And for now AMD is said to be supporting the AM4 motherboard socket through 2020. So All The Customers will be able to remove their Ryzen chip and drop in a Next Gen Ryzen CPU model with a BIOS flash supporting the newer CPU. 

2018 seems to be the 12nm year and as you see in AMD master plans 7 nm is on the way as the next step after 12 nm in 2019 or late 2018. Nvidia has not been much out there talking about what happens next but there have been rumors about the AMPere platform for next NVIDIA GAMING GPUS. AMD now is having a very successful line “RYZEN” and is making the best out of it.

He said “And after they got the fundamentals worked out, they peeled off part of it, started them working on the next-generation micro-architecture.”

“Zen, a brand new architecture, came on Globalfoundries 14 nanometer process, a brand new process at the same time,” he added.

“We’re going to do an optimization. We’ve got a new process from Globalfoundries — they already announced it — we started talking about that as well. We’re going to come in, but it won’t be the next-gen micro-architecture, but it will be an improvement of what we’ve got today. That’s what’s going to happen next, so we’re getting ready for that now.”

tags: technology, AMD, am4, amd ryzen, amd ryzen 2, amd ryzen 2 release date, amd ryzen 2 specs, apd ryzen 2 2018, amd ryzen 2 cpus, amd ryzen 2700

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