Zen 2 will also have stronger built-in security, where data can be fully encrypted as it is transferred to memory. It also has better 256-bit load/store floating point processing, or double the previous generation. Zen 2 can get twice the throughput thanks to better branch prediction, or predicting what kind of processing will be necessary for the next computation. Intel, meanwhile, has delayed its equivalent chips, dubbed 10-nanometer but at the same technology level, until late 2019. AMD is using TSMC, the chip contract manufacturer, to make its 7-nanometer chips. Zen 3 is on track to debut on 7-nanometer in 2020. Zen 2 chips are sampling today at 7-nanometer manufacturing, compared to the shipping 14-nanometer Zen processors that debuted in 2017. “Zen 2 marks the delivery of our promise of continuity,” he said. Mark Papermaster, AMD chief technology officer, said AMD took a holistic design approach to creating Zen 2. The next-generation Epyc platform is code-named Rome, which will debut next year with 7-nanometer technology. Intel noted that it has an extensive relationship with AWS. It is also feeding chips to data centers that run cloud deployments for Microsoft, Baidu, Tencent, Oracle, and others.ĪMD and Amazon Web Services announced today that Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud will use AMD Epyc CPUs, so customers can get access today to instances running on the AMD processors. The Zen-based designs are AMD’s most competitive in a decade, and it now has every major computer maker using the Epyc chips for servers, from HP Enterprise to Dell. They were bets on where we think the market was going.” The products you are seeing today are the products of the decisions we made four or five years ago. “We are not looking at incremental changes. “We see strong double-digit growth for the foreseeable future” for the overall market, she said. AMD is going after the $29 billion total available market for data center chips by 2021. Su said the new chips will be targeted for the workloads of the future, including machine learning, big data analytics, cloud, and other tasks. “Zen 2 is our next-generation system architecture,” Su said, noting chips using it will be made with 7-nanometer manufacturing, where the width between circuits is seven billionths of a meter. In the future, you can expect to see Zen 2 cores in future models of those families of chips.ĪMD’s focus is on making central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), and accelerated processing units (APUs) that put the two other units together on the same chip. Zen has spawned AMD’s most competitive chips in a decade, including Ryzen for the desktop, Threadripper (with up to 32 cores) for gamers, Ryzen Mobile for laptops, and Epyc for servers. But we are just at the beginning of our journey.” “So much has really happened in the last two years,” she said. Lisa Su, CEO of Santa Clara, California-based AMD, made the announcement at an AMD press and analyst event in San Francisco.
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