According to AMD official Twitter AMDNews share news, Radeon Instinct products based on 7nm process have arrived at AMD Labs and are on board.
In other words, AMD's 7nm GPU core has not only been taped out, it has even begun to debug peripherals.
Judging from the general laws of chip R&D, The release of Radeon Instinct should be only half a year away, and it is almost the third quarter.
Of course, Radeon Instinct is not intended for the consumer-level gaming market, but is used for accelerated learning of specialized scenes such as deep learning.
According to AMD’s latest graphics plan updated in March, Desktop flagship will not be updated in 2018 (supposedly waiting until 2020), 7nm Radeon Instinct is also based on Vega Core , As for the mainstream level 'RX 600', it is estimated that it will not be seen.
Because Navi was determined to be 7nm, mass production was properly completed in 2019. And, according to Fudzilla, Navi maintains the mainstream position throughout 2019 (see Polaris). The highest performance is only touching the GTX 1070/Ti..
In addition, although AMD has settled on 7nm, However, it should only be done with GF based on 7nm DUV (Deep UV) technology The higher level of 7nm EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography products is also expected to take place next year.