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AMD manages high yields on Ryzen

..[An anonymous inside source says] that 80 percent of CPUs are produced with all eight cores fully functional..


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AMD Confirms 7nm Products Will Tape Out This Year – Zen 2 & Navi

..Dr. Lisa Su, President & CEO at AMD
“. I think the gap between the foundry roadmap and the Intel roadmap has gotten a lot closer. Our goal is to be aggressive with 7nm technology. We will be doing tape outs later this year .."

Su also revealed that the company is employing a new research and development strategy by which at any given moment it has teams working on two consecutive next generation CPU and Graphics designs to stay on “the leading edge” of technology...


A similar leapfrogging (two design team) approach has been used by Intel CPUs for a while now (Intel "tick, tock" approach).

For many years, AMD went its own way. That did not work on CPUs (okay for GPUs).

Now, they are trying to beat Intel at its own CPU game. All things considered, I think that's a sensible approach -- because, in effect, Intel makes the rules for the CPU industry/game, today.


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