Wednesday, June 17th 2020
AMD Confirms "Vermeer" Zen 3 Not Delayed, to Launch in 2020
AMD in an official briefing call with us confirmed that the company's "Zen 3" client processors are on-track for launch within 2020. This refutes rumors that "Zen 3" based Ryzen processors had been delayed to 2021 in favor of giving the upcoming Ryzen 3000XT reign over the rest of the year. The call was chaired by AMD's client-segment product managers who were speaking purely in context of their product segment, which is how we deduce that they were referring to "Vermeer" and not [just] "Milan." They were responding to speculation that "Zen 3" has been delayed to 2021, forcing AMD to refresh its existing IP.
In the call, AMD told us that the information about "Zen 3" launching in 2020 is not under embargo, and so here we are. An AMD spokesperson told us that "the rumor on Zen 3 delay is inaccurate." AMD recently also refuted rumors of "Zen 3" being based on 5 nm, by putting out microarchitecture roadmap slides on the occasion of a recent investor relations event, which reaffirmed "Zen 3" as a 7 nm-class microarchitecture.
In the call, AMD told us that the information about "Zen 3" launching in 2020 is not under embargo, and so here we are. An AMD spokesperson told us that "the rumor on Zen 3 delay is inaccurate." AMD recently also refuted rumors of "Zen 3" being based on 5 nm, by putting out microarchitecture roadmap slides on the occasion of a recent investor relations event, which reaffirmed "Zen 3" as a 7 nm-class microarchitecture.
40 Comments on AMD Confirms "Vermeer" Zen 3 Not Delayed, to Launch in 2020
*Dec. 31st 2020.
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Oh, I never knew it was a rumor, I thought it was official. Then again I only skimmed a single article about it so, yeah.
So they denounced a rumour within a day and it served a purpose.
Perhaps, no it definitely Was Aliens.
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As for the news, I'd stress that the client portion is only what TechPowerUp thinks AMD means, but they didn't actually say anything but "Zen 3 architecture will release this year" and "Rumors going around about delaying Zen 3 are not true".
Just look at Renoir, it has been launched for 1-2 months now and it is still hard to find.
My predictions are launch in 7 Nov with availability in holiday time.
I wouldn't rule out a later Zen 3 product on 5nm, but the first ones will be on 7nm, as confirmed by AMD not too long ago.Isn't that what we call an announcement?
Products can be sold out for months as long as the demand is greater than supply, but that's much less important than the actual shipped volume.
Anyway, they can't decide the final specs until they have the final stepping in significant quantities, so they can't "lanuch" it >6 months ahead of actual mass production.
Nar just joking. It's good with competition. That keeps prices down, innovation up and it benefits us consumers. We have seen for years what the lack of competition dit to Intel. They got lazy releasing one I7 quad-core after another for years, even on there HEDT they released a i5 quad-core with out HT and even throw the platform/chipset whas quad-channel memory support, the CPU's only had dual-channel support and really dit not innovate for a long time.
www.reuters.com/article/us-lidl-france-playstation-scuffle/pepper-spray-and-scuffles-as-bargain-hunters-crowd-lidl-launch-in-france-idUSKBN23O261#:~:text=ORGEVAL%2C%20France%20(Reuters)%20%2D,retail%20price%20of%20299%20eurosThe July 7th is accurate for Zen2 XT sales though
June 1st 2021 we will be talking about Zen 4, DDR5, PCIe 5,
and Zen 3 will not be news or interesting anymore.
I would invite you to try to work as a tech writer for a couple of years and you'll see how easy it is to pin down rumours, as that is what everything is, until the official release/launch. I've done it for well over a decade and I have nailed a lot of rumours and gotten some wrong, it all depends on everything from reliable sources, to what the company behind the product decides to do. I wouldn't knock Digitimes too hard, they get a lot of things right too.Try buying a webcam, they're unobtanium right now.