Benefiting from the three-wire synchronization of the Ryzen processor, EPYC processor and Vega graphics card, AMD achieved good financial performance in 2017, turning losses into profits and laying a solid foundation for further development.
According to AMD, the 12nm Zen + processor will be released in April of this year, followed by the 7nm Zen 2, with a dual leap in process architecture and a sample delivery this year that will be next year's launch, followed by the 7 + nm Zen 3.
AMD had even disclosed that Zen 4, Zen 5's work has also been carried out internally!
Then how will EPYC on the server evolve? Will there be a 12nm optimized transitional version?
According to the latest confirmed news, AMD EPYC will not go through 12nm, but directly toward 7nm, which is directly on the Zen 2 architecture.
Currently, The Zen 2 architecture has been designed and EPYC expects to ship samples during the year.
However, the server and data center market is different from the consumer level, for upgrading will be more stable, especially EPYC was not available long before the ecosystem still needs to be consolidated and deepened, the second generation of EPYC naturally not too anxious, it is estimated that the fastest next year In the first half or even the second half of the year.
Earlier French well-known computer magazine Canard PC had exposed Meng Meng, The second-generation EPYC will have a maximum of 64 cores and 128 threads, more than double what it is now, with 256MB L3 cache, eight-lane DDR4-3200 memory and 128 PCI-E 4.0 lanes.
