By the end of this year, AMD promises to provide productive Zen architecture processors, which will become the new flagship of the company. To work with these processors require a motherboard with socket Socket AM4.
Italian site Bits & Chips reported, citing its own sources that the original Zen architecture processors will be offered only with eight-crystals. The single crystals with a reduced number of core are not yet developed, since it increases the costs. If companies need to offer models of processors Summit Ridge with six or four cores, they are obtained from the eight-way trip extra cores.
Close the need for more affordable processors with two or four cores will be hybrid solutions family Bristol Ridge, who can work in the same motherboards with socket Socket AM4. Maybe they hit the market even before the media Zen architecture.