AMD can present to the public series processors with the architecture of Summit Ridge Zen only at the beginning of next year, but as compensation for the prolonged waiting selectively is ready to talk about the level of their performance . Generally, on held yesterday technology conference Deutsche Bank 2016 AMD CTO Mark Peypermaster prepared in advance the report devoted to the peculiarities of processors with the architecture Zen and the key quality that allows us to count on a return to the productive segment solutions.
For example, he spoke in detail about the improvements at the architectural level, which have been described in the recent events, and concluded that Zen architecture allows us not only to scale performance for any task, but also makes these processors versatile - they can equally well handle single-threaded tasks and not get lost in multithreaded applications.
Zen processors will debut in the form of eight-core Summit Ridge for the desktop segment in the first quarter of 2017, in the second quarter picked up the baton Naples server processors with 32 cores, and in the second half of the year may appear Zen hybrid processors for notebooks with integrated graphics system. AMD Vice President of Investor Relations Ruth Cotter added that the market for high-performance desktop PC capacity is estimated at four billion dollars.
Mark Peypermaster said that AMD comes in this segment for a long time.
Ruth Cotter in the commentary on the amount of operating expenses noted that a priority even against the background of their economies are the development team needs. In particular, on the development of graphics solutions from AMD is ready to spend more money than it did previously.