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  • iwod - Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - link

    Any word on what IPC improvement we may get for Zen 2?
  • ImSpartacus - Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - link

    No one knows.
  • Gondalf - Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - link

    Obviously they will are marginal. Right now Zen have an high IPC pretty near to the limits with an accaptable power consumption. It will be clocked faster if GloFo will be able to deliver on a brand new Process.
    About shipment, an early sampling in H2 means a H2/2019 timeframe. The debug takes a lot of time on a server die (one year) and pretty likely it will not be easy for GloFo to ship fast clocked SKUs on a fine process like 10/7nm.
    Anyway all is on time with the new 10nm+ Xeon on track for H2/2019. Nice neck to neck battle.
  • 0ldman79 - Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - link

    AMD was claiming big improvements to Zen 2 vs the moderate gains on Zen+.

    Obviously we'll wait and see, but I don't think you should count them out yet. They could probably speed up processing a bit by making the integer pipelines more asymmetric like Intel did, or adding a couple of short pipelines to their existing integer setup for small code.
  • Gamma9 - Friday, July 6, 2018 - link

    @0ldman79 when you say marginal that really depends, for example if the changed in infinity fabric to cycle 1:1 with the memory in some applications that could offer a significant performance increase.
  • Gamma9 - Friday, July 6, 2018 - link

    ... in certain applications.
  • Valkrys - Friday, July 27, 2018 - link

    IF frequency is already 1:1 with memory *frequency*, you mean 2:1.
  • piroroadkill - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - link

    "Obviously they will are marginal"???
    I don't think anybody really knows with regards to Zen 2. If you're talking Zen+, then fair enough - that's a known entity. But Zen 2 comes with promises of much larger gains than those from Zen to Zen+
  • Dirk Broer - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - link

    Wasn't Epyc 2 supposed to be equipped with the 48-core/96-thread "starship" die?
  • MrSpadge - Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - link

    "the company very briefly showed off their first 7nm Zen 2 silicon"

    So they showed off a piece of metal which presumably hides their first 7 nm silicon chip?
  • mode_13h - Friday, June 8, 2018 - link

    Heh, at least it wasn't painted wood, like a graphics card shown by a certain company a few years back.
  • DroidTomTom - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - link

    AMD is executing products pretty well these days. Just two years ago you could just about add a year to any prediction they gave. Now it seems like they are ever so slightly ahead of schedule. Which is great because they are getting to polish the products before they are released. And I have not forgot about the fiasco of AMD being late to release samples to vendors with Zen but I think that was intentional to limit leaks.
  • msroadkill612 - Thursday, June 21, 2018 - link

    Intel is executing products a lot too :)
  • msroadkill612 - Thursday, June 21, 2018 - link

    I think amd, of historical necessity, have a culture of shuffling resources and timelines fairly freely.

    They certainly seem confident of having the 7nm process under control, and they are awash with development cash compared to formerly. It really comes down to where they can apply it first to best commercial advantage.

    I expect to see 7nm sooner rather than later.
  • FreckledTrout - Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - link

    Yeah we arnt hearing any news like we did for Intel's 10nm. Gloflos 7nm must be coming along nicely.

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