AMD ships Bristol Ridge to PC makers
Four Excavator x86 CPU cores
AMD has announced that its 7th-generation A-Series Bristol Ridge microprocessors are shipping to PC makers.
AMD teases Zen-based Naples processor
New benchmarks released
AMD is continuing to build up expectations for its new Zen-based Naples proccessor.
New Intel and AMD chips will only support Windows 10
Update or nothing new
Buried in the announcement of the new Kaby Lake (seventh-generation) processors and a rash of incoming notebooks set to use them is the confirmation that it will have a Windows 10 future.
Final version Zen based 32 core Naples will arrive in Q2 2017
Engineering samples are out already
AMD has revealed a heap of details about its 32-core Zen based product - codenamed Naples - and we have a few things to add.
Zen gets analysts and Fudzilla excited
Server and notebook deeper in 2017
AMD has showed off some clock and performance details about upcoming desktop Zen and some of you might remember that back in June at Computex, Fudzilla said that if the Zen boots windows it will boost AMD’s share too.
AMD’s CEO showcases 8 and 32 core Zen
Summit ridge and Naples
Fudzilla exclusively wrote about the 32 core Zen codenamed Naples some two months ago in quite detail and people called us crazy. Now it turns out we were right on the money.
Kaby Lake ships to PC builders
Ready for Late 2016
Chipzilla's CEO Brian Krzanich has claimed that Kaby Lake CPUs have been finalised and shipping to PC builders for use in complete systems.
AMD is on the up
Opinion Intel must be worried
Last week’s AMD results show that the company is set to make more headway this year and next, with its upcoming Zen processors definitely giving Intel the heebie jeebies.
AMD 2017 Opteron has three sockets
Exclusive: 4, 8, 12, 16, 24 and 32 core versions
Zen-based Opteron processors should appear by mid-2017 and our deep throats have revealed that there will be three different sockets. Not only that, the entry level Zen based processors will come in four or eight Zen core configurations and they will use the SP4r2 BGA socket. AMD has been developing them under the Snowy Owl codename.
16 Zen core Opteron is Snowy Owl
SP4 BGA in mid-2017
Naples is, as Fudzilla exclusively reported, a 32 Zen core Opteron with 64 threads. The 16 core Zen version with a BGA socket is codenamed Snowy Owl. AMD thinks that Snowy Owl will be a great match for the communication and network markets that needs a high performance 64-bit X86 CPU.