16 Zen core Opteron is Snowy Owl
SP4 BGA in mid-2017
Naples is, as Fudzilla exclusively reported, a 32 Zen core Opteron with 64 threads. The 16 core Zen version with a BGA socket is codenamed Snowy Owl. AMD thinks that Snowy Owl will be a great match for the communication and network markets that needs a high performance 64-bit X86 CPU.
Zen APU will have a Polaris GPU
Exclusive: Comes in 2017
AMD’s CEO Lisa Su said both publicly and to Fudzilla exclusively that its desktop Zen comes first, followed by server, notebook and embedded products. We have some exclusive news about the first Zen based APU that will come with four Zen cores and Polaris graphics.
AMD Zeppelin is an 8 core Zen
Exclusive: Up to four Zeppelin clusters for 32-core Naples option
A few months back Nick wrote about AMD Zen processor found in a Linux Kernel Mailing List confirming that Zeppelin had support for eight bundles of four cores on a single chip, or 32 physical processing cores.
Zen disturbs motherboard makers' meditation
What is the sound of costs rising?
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn claiming that some AMD’s Zen chipsets are having design issues.
AMD demonstrates Zen running Doom
One hand clapping with zombies at E3 2016
AMD has released a short video where its lead system engineer Louis Castro running Doom on its Summit Ridge, Zen-based processor .
AMD's Naples Zen has 32 cores
Exclusive: Server chip with 64 threads arriving in 2017
Fudzilla has scored some exclusive details about the coming AMD Zen chip that will have as much as 32 cores, 64 threads and more L3 cache than you can poke a stick at.
Inventory issues as Intel and AMD delay CPU releases
New platforms not until January
We have been expecting Intel and AMD to release their new generation CPU’s by the end of the year, but now it looks like we will not see them until Janaury.
Zen comes to desktops first
Server follows, then notebook
At the Q and A session after AMD's press conference, company CEO Lisa Su just confirmed that desktop Zen x86 chips are the first products to arrive for consumers. These will be followed by a server lineup, then a notebook lineup.
AMD CEO Lisa SU shows Zen at Computex 2016
It runs Windows, renders 4K videos and samples
AMD has just announced its upcoming Zen x86 core that delivers 40 percent more IPC from the current generation.
Company CEO Lisa Su pointed out that Summit Ridge is the new core codename, and that Zen is alive, on track and the introduction video played was rendered on a Zen processor.
AMD Computex 2016 event stream is live
Updated: Polaris GPU, Bristol Ridge APU and possible Zen
The live stream for AMD's Computex 2016 event has just gone live and we are certainly looking forward to see what AMD has prepared.