AMD is experimenting with 7nm chip Vega 20 is expected to sample at the end of the year

AMD recently announced their financial results for the first quarter of 2018, which showed a significant increase from the same period of last year. Revenues increased from 4 to 1.65 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 40%; profits jumped from 11 million to 120 million U.S. dollars, up 990%. AMD has three Business units, respectively computing and graphics, enterprise/embedded/semi-custom, and others. There is no suspense that the growth in performance is due to the strong pull of the Ryzen and EPYC product lines, and the need for crypto currency mining for graphics cards. The surge.

In addition to the good news mentioned above, Su Zifeng also disclosed an important piece of information during the telephone earnings report. The Radeon Technology Division has already started testing 7nm chips in the lab and is expected to send samples to customers later this year.

Of course, don't confuse it with NAVI, because this time only reducing the VEGA process from 14nm to 7nm. It is expected that the new GPU will be named Vega 20.

The earnings report is also honest. TSMC will be responsible for building the 7nm VEGA chip, because the process behind GlobalFoundries is not yet mature.

In addition to reducing size and power consumption, Vega 20 is also optimized for machine learning and artificial intelligence workloads, resulting in improved computing performance and up to 32GB of HBM2 memory.

If all goes well, we expect to see retail Vega 20 products in early 2019.