AMD "ZEN" Mobile Chips En Route Q2-2017 Launch

Melvis · Sep 20, 2016

TRWOV said:
Wrong thread?

ooops LOL yep wrong thread my bad, im getting old omg!

TheGuruStud · Sep 20, 2016

ensabrenoir said:
When a company intentionally slows down due to its only completing against itself.....it has some aces up its sleeve its saving for the right moment.

Not when smaller nodes are becoming prohibitively more expensive and silicon is pretty maxed out. MOAR CORES is pretty much the only solution. Plus, even with moles, Intel has 1 yr (wild guess) notice as of now of Zen's perf. Intel is doing what Intel does....bilk.

Pricing is where intel will retaliate (on desktop/server if they lose share). I doubt mobile budges.

Vayra86 · Sep 20, 2016

LemmingOverlord said:
-> Let's wait and see... Depends on when Scorpio actually lands... I wouldn't hold my breath, but mainstream media have it in for the "custom 8-core CPU" for Scorpio which would certainly be Zen.

Really?

The APU in the consoles is a custom SOC that is low-power Jaguar based. Zen is not a custom SOC, it's a scalable solution that can be applied for a variety of uses. In addition, the whole selling point of Zen is that it can be used 'as is' and contains most or all of the chipset features. Consoles don't adhere to chipsets as used in x86 PCs, they have their own custom feature sets. They don't need all those PCI lanes, they don't need all those connections like M2 and 8 SATA ports etc etc. And in the case of the X1, they communicate with other hardware too, such as EDRAM or omitting system RAM and relying fully on GDDR5.

In other words, it is completely unrealistic that the custom SOC used in consoles will be Zen based, AMD would literally have to complete redesign the CPU for that purpose, or waste loads of metal, which they aren't going to do for consoles that happen to be sold in large quantities. They will build a cheap, cost-effective and custom solution = Jaguar based.

Fx · Sep 20, 2016

ShurikN said:
Because I want to support AMD as much as I can. And I need a new laptop in 2017.

Aye, me too.

ensabrenoir said:
When a company intentionally slows down due to its only completing against itself.....it has some aces up its sleeve its saving for the right moment.

The probability is high, but definitely not certain.

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AMD "ZEN" Mobile Chips En Route Q2-2017 Launch

Melvis

TheGuruStud

Vayra86

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