AMD tapes out Zen & Arctic

[Orangey]

http://www.kitguru.net/components/g...-we-have-taped-out-our-first-finfet-products/

No mention of foundry or process variant but we can expect them both in Q4 next year. With the investment made it now falls to Fiji and Excavator to see them through the next year.

 

[Meladath]

I think there is a repost of this.. But even still, I hope zen is Athlon 64 II..... 2? We need some competition.

 

[Dave2150]

http://www.kitguru.net/components/g...-we-have-taped-out-our-first-finfet-products/

No mention of foundry or process variant but we can expect them both in Q4 next year. With the investment made it now falls to Fiji and Excavator to see them through the next year.

I think Grenada (390, 390x) will be much more important to AMD in the meantime.

 

[ukxenon]

Have to wait and see but I am losing hope for amd

 

[Sylver123]

Zen will be good but it won't be the intel killer type processor everybody's hoping for that will annihilate intel's most top processors out at the time.

I wish them good luck and hope they do bring Intel serious competition with Zen. This would be better all around for us consumers considering
it means bigger performance jumps every generation and cheaper prices too which is good for us.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

Whenever zen comes out, it'd be nice if we could buy it.
I'd happily buy a carrizo 8800p laptop, but they don't appear to exist...

It's been like this for the last few mobile releases, theres a product I like, and it has adequate performance for my needs. Doesn't matter though, OEMs aren't interested!