In previous years, everyone said that the PC was not interesting. It didn't have to be played. It seemed to be true. After all, the whole industry was going downhill. However, in the past 2017, it can definitely be described as 'stimulus' or 'passion'. Make a big movie.
Whether it is the unprecedented soaring of memory prices, the loading of machines has been extremely difficult, or the mining of earth has stirred the entire globe, and ordinary graphics cards have become 'luxury'. We have all experienced an extraordinary day.
In fact, in terms of technological progress alone, the development of PCs today has largely lost the space of high innovation in the past. In particular, the lack of sufficient competition will make it even more boring.
But this does not mean that you haven't gotten to play. Just look at your heart.
There is no doubt that the launch of AMD Zen is the biggest surprise in 2017. Although you are the world’s second-largest x86 chip giant, after all, there is a wide gap between them and the first aspect. AMD has been cracking down on Intel in the past decade. Under struggling, and almost people do not see hope.
However, even if everyone is not optimistic and even opponents disregard casual toothpaste, AMD has played a beautiful turnaround to achieve an unprecedented counterattack. In the history of PC has written a heavy makeup ink color One stroke.
The AMD Zen architecture, as well as the Ryzen based Ruilong, ThreadRipper thread ripped, EPYC dragon and other product lines, changed the AMD, also changed the entire industry.
From the desktop (Ryzen/ThreadRipper) to the notebook (Ryzen Mobile), from the enterprise (Ryzen Pro) to the data center (EPYC) to embedded (Ryzen/EPYC), from enthusiast to entry level, from performance to price, all without exception It was a longing before the eyes of people. I really didn't breathe so fresh air for a long time.
The idea that there is competition and excitement has once again been verified. Although the volume of AMD is unlikely to be overwhelming, the entire industry will be shaken and laughed. However, once the sparks of competition have been wiped out, the momentum of the prairie fire is a matter of course.
In one year, the speed of industrial change is far more than the sum of the previous N years. The Intel who used to get used to being at ease has finally been completely awakened. Soon, as soon as everyone wished, he had enough horsepower.
In the past 10 years, mainstream desktop processors have been stuck at the level of four cores. Now they are stimulated directly by the Ruilong to the six cores, eight cores, not to mention enthusiasts, and suddenly leapt to 16 The core, 18 cores really make people less adaptable.
The dual core of the thin and light notebooks has been ruled for 8 years. Nowadays, 4 cores have been universally popularized. High-performance games also move from the quad core to the 6 core.
AMD's efforts have also yielded huge rewards. The products are well known. For example, in the third quarter of 2017, the Ruilong 7/5/3 series actually exceeded 40% in the mainstream e-commerce platform. At the company level, AMD also More calmly, financial statements are getting better and better.
In fact, at the time of Ruilong's first evaluation summary, we had proposed that the launch of Ruilong is only the first step of the Long March for AMD. The road behind it is long and difficult. There are still too many things AMD needs to do.
Fortunately, we are delighted to see this since AMD has followed our expectations step by step. Not only has it rolled out the entire territory in just one year, but it has also laid a solid foundation for early planning of blueprints for many years to come.
At the time of the birth of Zen, AMD promised that this was the cornerstone of its many years of development in the future, and since then publicly displayed the roadmap several times, each step is very clear, continue to improve performance, energy consumption ratio, and the performance of each generation will be exceeded 7-8% of the average level in the industry.
2018 is 12nm (14+nm) Zen+, with double optimization of process and architecture. Based on the first generation of products, it taps deep into the market.
In 2019, 7nm Zen 2 crossed the 10nm process and went to the next node. At the same time, the entire architecture was fully upgraded and jumped one level.
2020 is 7+nm Zen 3, while the craftsmanship continues to improve.
Senior design engineer and Zen architect Mike Clark even disclosed that AMD is already working on Zen 5 and can't stop the rhythm.
Of course, the road is to go step by step. In 2018, we are looking at the continuous refurbishment of AMD's entire product line: The new Ruilong +Vega APU for thin and light notebooks, followed by the desktop-class Ruilong +Vega APU. There will be a second-generation enterprise version of the Rui Long Pro mobile and desktop versions, as the final line is the second-generation enthusiast ThreadRipper.
And our protagonist today is the second generation of Ruilong 2000 series based on 12nm Zen+. Then on the first anniversary of the birth of Zen/Rui, what is the magic of Zen+/Ryron 2 reloading?
