AMD today reported fourth quarter and full year earnings in 2017, relying on its outstanding performance across all product lines, including a 34% surge in revenue and a net profit of $ 61 million in the fourth quarter, with full-year revenue up 25% Net profit of 43 million US dollars, to achieve profitability, but in 2016 lost nearly 500 million US dollars.
Ryzen processor, EPYC processor, Vega graphics card is already AMD's troika , Which Ryzen 2000 series will be released in April, based on the 12nm Zen + upgrade technology and architecture, equivalent to the enhanced version of the first product last year.
The second-generation Zen 2 architecture has also been piloted for streaming production and will meet with us next year with a new 7nm process, followed by Zen 3, with process upgrades to 7 + nm.
The Vega graphics card is undoubtedly the weakest link in the Troika, Radeon Technology Group boss Raja Koduri also resigned late last year, but in any case, Vega family already has a complete layout, desktops, laptops, workstations, high performance computing, Artificial intelligence, deep learning and so on are rolling out.
Earlier this year, AMD has publicly announced that AMD will be the next step into the video card directly to 7nm, or Vega technology, the first machine-oriented learning, the subsequent upgrade to a new architecture Navi.
The next step for NVIDIA is the 12nm Volta architecture, but Ampere is not yet sure what to do with it, so this time in the craft, the A card takes the lead.
AMD also disclosed after the earnings announcement, Vega architecture will be optimized and upgraded for the new 7nm process, will be completed in 2018 film, that is, get the overall design.
Architecture optimization, coupled with the new technology, Vega confidence in the leather will inevitably have double the performance and power consumption, but want to see a new generation of Vega graphics card, is bound to be 2019 things.
7nm Vega will be the first machine-oriented market, which is the Radeon Instinct product line, to replace the current 14nm / Vega Radeon Instinct MI25, which is a broader market.
Radeon Pro workstation product line may be introduced later 7nm, the last is the Radeon game card, so A meal, wait for it.
