AMD CEO Confirms Zen Launching Early 2017 For Desktops, Q2 For Servers

AMD confirmed this past Friday that it’s launching its next generation family of enthusiast Zen based CPUs in early 2017. The new product line-up for desktops code-named “Summit Ridge” will be flagshipped by an eight core, sixteen thread CPU..

..The enterprise and server market is the most interesting for the company when talking about the impact of Zen’s introduction on its financial performance. It’s an extremely lucrative market with a significantly wider profit margin compared to the desktop and mobile segments...