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AMD Announces Next Horizons Event For November 6th
AMD New Horizons Event Comes At Short Notice In just a couple of months, AMD should be launching their new Zen 2 processors. Using the updated version of the Zen architecture, the new CPUs should offer in the excess of 10% IPC increase. Ahead of the launch next year, it…
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AMD Zen 2 CPU Instructions Leaked In GNU Compiler
AMD Laying Groundwork for Zen 2 Sometime in the near future, AMD will be launching their new Zen 2 CPUs. The new designs build on the great work that AMD has already done for Zen and Zen+. With a projected 13% IPC increase, performance is definitely up. Along with base IPC…
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AMD Zen 2 May Offer Significant IPC Boost
AMD Zen 2 May Offer 15% IPC Increase After Intel launched the Core series, AMD CPUs gradually lost their competitive edge. This all changed last year with the launch of Ryzen. Due to the new Zen architecture, performance has shot up, with a massive increase of over 40%. So far,…
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AMD Zen 2 May Feature Major IPC Uplift and CCX Rework
Since the launch of Ryzen, AMD has been shaking things up in the CPU market. Due to the new Zen architecture, the Red team is now competitive with Intel. This year, the company followed up with the new Zen+ chips, with minor tweaks. For next year, things are heating up…
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MSI Teases 8 Core+ Ready AMD AM4 Motherboards
MSI’s Latest Motherboards Ready for 8 Cores And More Last year, AMD launched their new Ryzen processors. With the move to the new Zen architecture, their CPUs were once again highly competitive against Intel. Along with the new design, the core count was an impressive 8 for the mainstream segment.…
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AMD Will Start Sampling Zen 2 Processors in 2018
AMD’s Zen 2 Planned For 2019 After AMD’s drought with Bulldozer, the company has come back with a vengeance. Last year, AMD released their new Ryzen processors. The new CPUs use the new Zen architecture with performance competitive with Intel. Last month, a year after Ryzen launched, AMD came back with…
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AMD Promises In-Silicon Fix for Spectre Flaw on New CPUs
AMD’s Commitment to Security Unlike Intel’s CPUs which are vulnerable to both Spectre and Meltdown, AMD thankfully only has Spectre to worry about. Due to the memory configuration of AMD’s platform, it is virtually impossible for the Meltdown flaw to affect it. Spectre comes in three variants and the GPZ…
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AMD Details Longterm Zen CPU Roadmap
Just about a year ago, AMD reframed the entire x86 CPU market with their new Zen processors. After years of lagging behind Intel, the company now had something that could challenge Intel’s dominance. Following up on their early success, AMD is now launching new Zen based processors as well setting the…
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AMD Confirms 7nm Zen 2 and Navi Tape Out For 2017
AMD has confirmed its intention to tape out its next-gen 7nm products during the second-half of 2017. If the 7nm process is just around the corner, that means the release of Zen 2 and Navi creeps ever closer. What is a ‘Tape Out’? For those scratching their heads, a ‘tape…
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AMD to Unveil Vega, Navi, and Zen 2 Next Week?
An insider has revealed that AMD is set to divulge information on its next-gen CPU and GPU technologies very soon. At a Sunnyvale event on 16th May, the company will discuss its new Navi and Zen 2 (otherwise known as Zen+) CPU and Vega GPU architectures, according to WCCFTech. 16th…
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AMD Pinnacle Ridge Features 8 Zen 2 CPU Cores
Just a few days ago, we got our first hint about the Ryzen Summit Ridge replacement. Codenamed Pinnacle Ridge, the report suggested that AMD would be updating the architecture from Zen to Zen 2. Luckily for us, a roadmap for the next 2 years has leaked out, detailing some of the…
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AMD Summit Ridge Successor Pinnacle Ridge Reportedly Features Zen 2
During their recent Ryzen launch earlier, AMD revealed some key details for their upcoming roadmaps. As we all know, Ryzen is powered by the company’s latest Zen architecture, marking a new beginning from the Bulldozer family. We also now know that Zen 2 will replace Zen going forward with Zen 3…
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AMD Confirms Zen Successors as Zen 2 and Zen 3
During the first Zen announcement, AMD showed off their roadmap for Zen, their new CPU architecture with a 40% IPC increase. On the same chart was Zen+, the planned successor to Zen with an additional 15% IPC increase. Now that Zen has launched with a 52% IPC increase, where does that…
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