Monday, June 29th 2020
AMD Ryzen 4000 "Vermeer" CPUs Almost Ready to Hit the Market
AMD has been working hard to prepare its next-generation Ryzen 4000 CPUs codenamed Vermeer, and we have some exciting news about it. Thanks to the sources over at Igor's Lab, we have information that AMD Vermeer CPUs are close to launching. Apparently, the CPUs have are now at B0 stepping and are going through the usual validation process. The B0 stepping is where the CPU is fully working and now it just needs to go on mass production. The next step for the CPU is high-volume manufacturing and in a very quick time, the CPUs will be ready to hit the market.
Usually, it takes 3-4 months for silicon to be manufactured, so if AMD has orders set at TSMC's factory for the manufacturing of its processors, we could get the processors very soon. Given that AMD is ready with the design, and there is a lack of competition from team blue, AMD is very flexible with timing. The processors can be ready whenever AMD needs them to be. After a while, AMD is in a position to dictate the market needs and tailor them to their own. This used to be a position where Intel was before the Ryzen era. Now if AMD needs to do a launch as quickly as possible they can. If not, they have the design ready and can push it a few months.
Source:
Igor's Lab
Usually, it takes 3-4 months for silicon to be manufactured, so if AMD has orders set at TSMC's factory for the manufacturing of its processors, we could get the processors very soon. Given that AMD is ready with the design, and there is a lack of competition from team blue, AMD is very flexible with timing. The processors can be ready whenever AMD needs them to be. After a while, AMD is in a position to dictate the market needs and tailor them to their own. This used to be a position where Intel was before the Ryzen era. Now if AMD needs to do a launch as quickly as possible they can. If not, they have the design ready and can push it a few months.
28 Comments on AMD Ryzen 4000 "Vermeer" CPUs Almost Ready to Hit the Market
I agree that the way that frog's lab puts out to end of Q4 2020.
We should already be in Q3 2020(at least I think so.....<_<.....>_>....<_<....>_>)
This was mainly an opinion when the XT CPUs were first leaked, as it made little sense to launch them and then soon after launch Zen 3. But AMD did confirm that Zen 3 is still on course for 2020 after that whole ordeal, so there is no reason to harbor the opinion of them not launching this year. If they didn't, AMD would be in big trouble for lying.
Hell, I might even settle for a 4400G.
The article did not say they are ready to hit the market, it said they will be "in a very quick time".If it's with integrated graphics, this is not what you've been waiting for. That would be Renoir, not Vermeer. Vermeer is CPU, Renoir is APU. AMD has two series, the CPU and APU series. 3rd gen was Matisse for CPU and Picasso for APU. Vermeer is 4th gen CPU, so no integrated graphics.
I want Zen 3 and RDNA 2 out in time for the Cyberpunk 2077 launch.
Anything shipping in September/October has obviously entered mass production of wafers by now.Can AMD manage to walk and chew gum at the same time? I think so.
The XT models are just different bins of the non-XT variants, so they've had them all along. Kind of similar to Intel's limited i7-8086K and i9-9900KS.
Vermeer is Zen 3.