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AMD: Zen 2 Design is Complete, Rolling Out To Customers in Late 2018 – Next-Gen EPYC Rome Family To Skip 12nm in Favor of 7nm Process
AMD 12nm Zen+ For Ryzen First and 7nm Zen 2 For Next-Gen EPYC Processors First
AMD has already stated that their Zen 2 cores (not Zen+) will address all potential Spectre exploits through implementing on-silicon changes. .. AMD’s next-generation server processors .. the EPYC successor will be the first CPU product to feature the 7nm process.
next generation 7nm server chips, .. up to 48 cores and 96 threads in various SKUs. These SKUs will come in 35W and up to 180W TDP
12nm Ryzen still looks good for April. Hopefully, pricing will be similar to current 14nm Ryzen. I'm guessing we'll get roughly 10 percent better performance (measurable but not visible in games).
48 core/96 Thread server CPUs are not far off -- at only 180 watts. Shortly after it happens, 32core/64 thread desktop PC CPUs will probably hit the shelves.
By then, Spectre exploit fixes will be in-hardware (Ryzen hardware is already immune to Meltdown exploit).