Allen
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Exclusive: Codename Starship
...it looks like AMD has a 7nm product called Starship which will arrive soon..
..The 7nm flavour will be codenamed Starship..
..server chip will have 48 cores and 96 thread support..
Starship is still a concept project and if all goes well, you might see it as soon as 2018...
They speculatively rumor that the 7nm desktop equivalent is also planned.
What's interesting about 7nm is that it is "close to the end" of the downsizing possible with "silicon transistors". That is, there probably will be a practical 3nm someday -- but, maybe not -- under 3nm may not be possible at all.
So, we are approaching the year when the rate of CPU improvement drops sharply -- and when AMD catches up to Intel simply because the technology is "against the wall" and Intel will "stand still" while AMD continues forward to their side (at which point AMD stalls too).
Of course, Intel/AMD are already trying to "break through" to a new technology -- so far, I have not read a "convincing" rumor that they have found a practical successor technology.
