The AMD processor has performed well in each line of the past two years. It has already planned the roadmap for many years early and it is being realized step by step. In contrast, Intel's rhythm seems a bit messy, and it also allows AMD to compete more easily.
Time flies, AMD based on 14nm technology, Zen architecture, code-named Naples (Naples) EPYC Opteron server platform has been born for a whole year, AMD also confirmed on multiple occasions, the next generation 'Rome' (Rome) will use 7nm process, Zen 2 architecture, progress is very smooth.
Forrest Norrod, AMD’s senior vice president and general manager of the Enterprise/Establishment and Semi-Customs (EESC) division, is now reconfirming The Rome EPYC processor is currently tuned in AMD's lab and is scheduled to be trial-production in the second half of this year and will be released next year.
He also mentioned that There will be a 7nm+ process in 2020, a next generation 'Milan' (Milano) for the Zen 3 architecture, followed by Zen 4, Zen 5, which will continue to advance.
Interestingly, Norrod pointed out that the opponent of 7nm Zen 2 EPYC is not Intel’s Cascade Lake-SP Xeon which is expected to be launched later this year. It adopts 14nm++, which is only an optimized upgrade of the current product. The only change is that it supports Optane. DIMM memory, maximum capacity up to 6 can also.
In fact, AMD aimed directly at Intel’s future Ice Lake-SP, the first 10nm process server, but according to the current signs, Intel 10nm could not be put into production for a long time. Ice Lake-SP will probably not be available until 2020. It is that AMD is expected to lead the year or so.
AMD is starting from scratch and is returning to the server and data center market, and has made a good start. Intel CEO Ke Zaiqi, who had just resigned from Taoist News, also admitted that he would be taken away by AMD EPYC.
