AMD tapes out FinFET
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Wednesday, 22 July 2015 13:59

AMD tapes out FinFET


Or tapedon fins

AMD has taped out its first FinFET chips.

AMD's ARM plans pushed to speed up Zen X86 introduction
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Zen can reboot server business for AMD

Many have noticed that AMD had pushed the plans to introduce its Skylake processors in 2015. This was supposed to unify the ARM and X86 processors from AMD in the same socket. 

AMD official releases Carrizo-L details
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Thursday, 14 May 2015 11:40

AMD official releases Carrizo-L details


Low power

AMD officially unveiled the Carrizo-L product SKUs and clock speeds and ended months of speculation on what the company's 2015 low-power products might look like.

Zen is 40 percent faster than Excavator
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Wednesday, 06 May 2015 21:04

Zen is 40 percent faster than Excavator


2016, FinFET 14nm product

AMD is in the middle of the financial conference call and update where Lisa Su, Mark Papermaster and a few others are talking about AMD between now and 2017. 

AMD mobile APUs bets on 14nm in 2016
Published in Graphics
Thursday, 30 April 2015 10:38

AMD mobile APUs bets on 14nm in 2016


20nm Amur Cortex A57 this year

AMD is betting a lot at the new Carrizo APU and the company will offer it in mobile and desktop variants. 

First Zen Chips will be Quad Core
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Wednesday, 29 April 2015 12:02

First Zen Chips will be Quad Core


What is the sound of four cores clapping?

Some of AMD's first Zen based CPUs and APUs will be quad-core.

New leaked AMD Zen slide
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Tuesday, 28 April 2015 12:33

New leaked AMD Zen slide


High performance monster

The block diagram of the new AMD Zen core has found its way onto the Planet 3 news group.

32 core Opteron supports 2P sockets
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Thursday, 23 April 2015 08:39

32 core Opteron supports 2P sockets


140W max TDP

Opteron processors based on the Zen architecture are coming in 2016 (hopefully) and we expect to see them using 14nm GlobalFoundries' manufacturing process. 

AMD x86 16-core ZEN APU to fight Core i7
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Wednesday, 22 April 2015 11:05

AMD x86 16-core ZEN APU to fight Core i7


Greenland APU gives it the necessary firepower

AMD mini cores and modular designs backed by HBM graphics and the upcoming Greenland GPU core might be a winning combination for AMD.

The next generation Opteron has 32 Zen x86 cores
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No APU, 16MB L2, 64MB L3 cache

We recently showed you a new 16 Zen core next generation processor with Greenland integrated graphics and DDR4 support.