Monday, September 3rd 2018
AMD Fast-tracks 7nm "Navi" GPU to Late-2018 Alongside "Zen 2" CPU
AMD is unique in the world of computing as the only company with both high-performance CPU and GPU products. For the past several years we have been executing our multi-generational leadership product and architectural roadmap. Just in the last 18 months, we successfully introduced and ramped our strongest set of products in more than a decade and our business has grown dramatically as we gained market share across the PC, gaming and datacenter markets.
The industry is at a significant inflection point as the pace of Moore's Law slows while the demand for computing and graphics performance continues to grow. This trend is fueling significant shifts throughout the industry and creating new opportunities for companies that can successfully bring together architectural, packaging, system and software innovations with leading-edge process technologies. That is why at AMD we have invested heavily in our architecture and product roadmaps, while also making the strategic decision to bet big on the 7nm process node. While it is still too early to provide more details on the architectural and product advances we have in store with our next wave of products, it is the right time to provide more detail on the flexible foundry sourcing strategy we put in place several years ago.
AMD's next major milestone is the introduction of our upcoming 7nm product portfolio, including the initial products with our second generation "Zen 2" CPU core and our new "Navi" GPU architecture. We have already taped out multiple 7nm products at TSMC, including our first 7nm GPU planned to launch later this year and our first 7nm server CPU that we plan to launch in 2019. Our work with TSMC on their 7nm node has gone very well and we have seen excellent results from early silicon. To streamline our development and align our investments closely with each of our foundry partner's investments, today we are announcing we intend to focus the breadth of our 7nm product portfolio on TSMC's industry-leading 7nm process. We also continue to have a broad partnership with GLOBALFOUNDRIES spanning multiple process nodes and technologies. We will leverage the additional investments GLOBALFOUNDRIES is making in their robust 14nm and 12nm technologies at their New York fab to support the ongoing ramp of our AMD Ryzen, AMD Radeon and AMD EPYC processors. We do not expect any changes to our product roadmaps as a result of these changes.
We are proud of the long-standing and successful relationships we have built with our multiple foundry partners, and we will continue to strengthen these relationships to enable the manufacturing capacity required to support our product roadmaps. I look forward to providing more details on those innovations as we prepare to introduce the industry's first 7nm GPU later this year and our first 7nm CPUs next year.
Source:
AMD Investor Relations
The industry is at a significant inflection point as the pace of Moore's Law slows while the demand for computing and graphics performance continues to grow. This trend is fueling significant shifts throughout the industry and creating new opportunities for companies that can successfully bring together architectural, packaging, system and software innovations with leading-edge process technologies. That is why at AMD we have invested heavily in our architecture and product roadmaps, while also making the strategic decision to bet big on the 7nm process node. While it is still too early to provide more details on the architectural and product advances we have in store with our next wave of products, it is the right time to provide more detail on the flexible foundry sourcing strategy we put in place several years ago.
AMD's next major milestone is the introduction of our upcoming 7nm product portfolio, including the initial products with our second generation "Zen 2" CPU core and our new "Navi" GPU architecture. We have already taped out multiple 7nm products at TSMC, including our first 7nm GPU planned to launch later this year and our first 7nm server CPU that we plan to launch in 2019. Our work with TSMC on their 7nm node has gone very well and we have seen excellent results from early silicon. To streamline our development and align our investments closely with each of our foundry partner's investments, today we are announcing we intend to focus the breadth of our 7nm product portfolio on TSMC's industry-leading 7nm process. We also continue to have a broad partnership with GLOBALFOUNDRIES spanning multiple process nodes and technologies. We will leverage the additional investments GLOBALFOUNDRIES is making in their robust 14nm and 12nm technologies at their New York fab to support the ongoing ramp of our AMD Ryzen, AMD Radeon and AMD EPYC processors. We do not expect any changes to our product roadmaps as a result of these changes.
We are proud of the long-standing and successful relationships we have built with our multiple foundry partners, and we will continue to strengthen these relationships to enable the manufacturing capacity required to support our product roadmaps. I look forward to providing more details on those innovations as we prepare to introduce the industry's first 7nm GPU later this year and our first 7nm CPUs next year.
97 Comments on AMD Fast-tracks 7nm "Navi" GPU to Late-2018 Alongside "Zen 2" CPU
Dr Lisa Su knows what she is doing!
The gpu that's going to launch later this year is a 7nm Vega20 (or whatever it's called), which is not a consumer product.
I don't know why, but it just dawned on me that AMD's got me good at this point. If their 7nm CPU's make it to AM4 and my x370 will take it, I know already that I'll buy one, even if I don't need it. At that point, they'll have sold me one CPU from each Zen generation. And the only reason I would think to even do that is because of how affordable their CPU's generally are and just the simple fact that you don't have to change boards each gen. Much lower barrier to entry makes one less likely to stop and think... ...just spend the little chunk of cash, drop it in, and enjoy the gains. It's almost too easy to upgrade. It's brilliant. The reality is that this way, I actually spend more with them than I would have been able to justify with Intel.
I wonder if there will be some architectural changes with the GPU or just simple shrink and clocks bump.
Eh... Just be affordable and fast, pretty please :(
/me contemplates Zen 2 + Navi + GDDR6 mini-ITX soldered systems.
"I look forward to providing more details on those innovations as we prepare to introduce the industry's first 7nm GPU later this year..."
That sounds like a dedicated graphics card. Hype is
risingRyzen?It's clearly just a counter measure for the GF 7nm fiasco. This text was written for shareholders, not customers.
Also, when Intel writes something similar, this forum is full of sarcasm and comments about damage control. Sad.
AMD Fast-tracks 7nm "Navi" GPU to Late-2018 Alongside "Zen 2" CPU
LOL the title fails hard. Neither of them are coming in 2018 lol. Zen 2 is coming in 2019. I gotta call it like it is. And the article never says navi is fast tracked in 2018. Heck the share holders kept expectations in check vs the title.
AMD's 7nm portfolio includes Zen2 and Navi and obviously also the Vega 20. 7nm GPU this year is Vega 20, 7nm server CPU means consumer CPUs will come later.
Title is clickbait.
That was in july, price drops to below msrp on rx570 and 580 was just changing to arez and all the gpp naming or so I thought.
No rx570 and 580 is in the biggest etailer in my country anymore at all, not listed or anything all of a sudden and then I knew something have to come...
AMD musta been really good at holding this one tight cause I've not heard any rumors or seen any leaks until this post :)