AMD To Disclose 14nm CPU and GPU Roadmaps in May – Zen, K12 and Arctic Islands

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This year is going to be a bit different. We’ll get a more well defined roadmap especially with regards to products. Last year it was all about the company’s core IP and how it’s evolving. This year will be about the products that AMD plans to build with this new IP. Last year it was all about ARM, this year will be x86’s turn in the spot-light. And for the first time the company will be timing 14nm and 16nm FinFET process nodes. The most significant nodes since the long-lived 28nm process.

The roadmaps will include AMD’s upcoming products based on the next-generation x86 high-performance Zen core and ARMv8 64bit K12 core. In addition to an all new family of FinFET based GPUs code named Arctic Islands. These will feature the company’s most significant architectural evolution on the GPU front since the introduction of GCN (Graphics Core Next) back in late 2011.
Thankfully, we already know some of what’s going to be revealed at the event. Starting off with Zen, we know that AMD is working on a family of products that will incorporate this new core. Code named Summit Ridge, will feature up to 8 cores, 95W TDP, DDR4 memory support and a new FM3 socket. These will constitute the spiritual successors to the Phenom processors of yesteryear. The Southbridge for this family of chips is rumored to be developed by Asmedia, an Asus subsidiary. We also exclusively told you that Zen will be arriving to servers first, with high-end desktop parts following soon afterwards. Zen will be AMD’s biggest x86 high performance server play since the original Opteron in the early 2000s.
After that we’ve got the Arctic Islands family of GPUs. These will be the first set of high-performance graphics chips to be fabbed on a FinFET process. The new GPUs will introduce the most significant leap in performance/watt according to AMD’s Chief Technology Officer, Mark Papermaster. And will feature an all new post-GCN graphics architecture. All Arctic Islands GPUs will feature stacked high-bandwidth memory (HBM). We don’t know if AMD will disclose this as well, but we know that the company is working on HBM based APUs as well that will debut with Zen.
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AMD says that this year's r9 300 series was just an appetizer for the upcoming dinner to be served in 2016 and the later years! 
so are you excited???? 

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