Allen
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Some Zen CPU and APU news:
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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.
There will be many versions of the Zen but the one that caught our eyes has four Zen CPU cores and up to 11 GCN cores. This will result with an APU for notebooks as well as embedded systems with up to 704 stream cores...
As we know, Zen is designed to operate much like Intel CPUs. It should be approximately equivalent performance to a same-core-count Intel CPU.
The AMD Zen APU should have superior graphics to Intel CPUs with the same core count. Important because graphics is the usual limitation on cheap PCs and Notebooks. Consequently, AMD Zen APU could become the "go to" chip for those items. We'll see next year.
And, after that:
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...The real change is expected in later part of 2017 when Intel is expceted to launch its first 10nm Cannonlake processors. As far as Fudzilla is aware, AMD will skip the 10nm and go directly to 7nm after 14nm, but this is another story all together...
