Friday, January 11th 2019

AMD CTO Mark Papermaster Confirms 7 nm Lineup Refresh for 2019
AMD's CTO Mark Papermaster, in an interview with TheStreet, confirmed AMD's plans with 7 nm for their graphics offerings are just beginning with Radeon VII. When inquired on AMD's plans for their graphics division, Papermaster said that "What we do over the course of the year is what we do every year. We'll round out the whole roadmap." he then added that "We're really excited to start on the high-end... you'll see the announcements over the course of the year as we round out our Radeon roadmap."
So these comments form papermaster seemingly confirm two things: first, that AMD plans to "round out" its lineup using the 7 nm process technology, which means increasing offerings at different price points. The use of the word "refresh" almost takes the breath away, since refreshes are usually based on the same previous architectures. However, AMD does have plans for a new mid-range chip to finally succeed Polaris in Navi, which should become the next AMD launch in the 7 nm process for graphics technologies.However, what might put some of the enthusiasm down on AMD's plans is Papermaster saying that AMD's starting on the "high-end". As it stands, that seemingly means that yes, AMD will be releasing Navi-based graphics, but that such releases will offer lower performance than that of Radeon VII. Of course, there's still a chance that AMD can also refresh their high-end or explore above-Radeon VII performance - one of Navi's marketing materials does mention scalability - but... That just seems like hopeful speculation after Papermaster's words. It seems that any market above NVIDIA's RTX 2080 will be available solely for NVIDIA, as has become the norm in recent years.
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TheStreet
So these comments form papermaster seemingly confirm two things: first, that AMD plans to "round out" its lineup using the 7 nm process technology, which means increasing offerings at different price points. The use of the word "refresh" almost takes the breath away, since refreshes are usually based on the same previous architectures. However, AMD does have plans for a new mid-range chip to finally succeed Polaris in Navi, which should become the next AMD launch in the 7 nm process for graphics technologies.However, what might put some of the enthusiasm down on AMD's plans is Papermaster saying that AMD's starting on the "high-end". As it stands, that seemingly means that yes, AMD will be releasing Navi-based graphics, but that such releases will offer lower performance than that of Radeon VII. Of course, there's still a chance that AMD can also refresh their high-end or explore above-Radeon VII performance - one of Navi's marketing materials does mention scalability - but... That just seems like hopeful speculation after Papermaster's words. It seems that any market above NVIDIA's RTX 2080 will be available solely for NVIDIA, as has become the norm in recent years.
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