In the fourth quarter next year, is scheduled to debut AMD FX processors with Zen architecture , and hybrid processors with this architecture will be released already in 2017. Obviously, in the first case we are talking about CPU performance Summit Ridge, while the second - a hybrid Raven Ridge. Both processors families will use the same design concept Socket AM4 and coexist with a new set of chipset that AMD will create . The processors Summit Ridge will even be provided a block of hardware encryption.
While AMD FX processors generation of Zen attributed to the presence of not more than eight cores, but in the future their number is likely to increase. Anyway, server solutions to this architecture rumors attributed the presence of 32 cores. Sami core will be compact enough so that even eightcore-processor AMD FX will have a moderate cost and attractive price.
In 2017, there will be not only the server processors with Zen architecture , and hybrid solutions with similar cores. According to some, one of the APU modifications generation of Zen will use an integrated memory type HBM - taking into account the expected time of release, it will probably be already HBM2. It is argued that even mobile APU generation of Zen can compete in performance with game consoles Sony PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Xbox One. If we consider that specialized accessories for consoles are also developed by AMD, this is not surprising.