January 31, AMD released fourth quarter and full year 2017 earnings, including revenue, net profit Dengjun substantial growth, year on year loss.
During the earnings conference, Dr. Su Zitfeng, AMD CEO, also made a vision of the future product roadmap.
According to the TMHW report, she noted that AMD is continuing to address the security crisis that Specter and Meltdown vulnerabilities have caused across the industry, The Zen 2 product, which will completely immunize Specter-type BUGs from the ground up (Note: Meltdown has no effect on AMD).
Specter V2 that attacked Intel was still extremely hard to be implemented on AMD processors by AMD, but in order to be foolproof, microcode updates have been released.
On the progress of Zen 2, Dr. Su said, The design is over and will be shipped to some core partners this year As for the 7nm process, their preparation is quite positive.
note, The Zen 2 architecture is the true second generation of Zen, unlike Zen + to launch in April , Zen + is upgraded to 12nm technology, is expected to have a frequency, memory performance upgrade Refresh version.
Zen 2 is a multi-dimensional upgrade of the replacement architecture, AMD CPU product line in 2019 is the absolute main force.
According to the latest roadmap, Zen 2 is followed by 7nm + Zen 3, but until 2020.
