Anticipating the announcement of processors with Zen architecture AMD company began from the summer of this year. The rare mention of Zen Engineering samples was in unpopular benchmarks.
At Barclays conference AMD chief financial officer said that the company's customers receive processor samples Zen architecture from the middle of this year, speaking mainly on the development of server products, testing and training which takes more time. Media Output Timing architecture Zen on the market was once again listed in chronological order: in the first quarter will begin delivery of Summit Ridge processors for high-performance desktop systems in the second quarter to be joined server Naples processors, and in the second half of 2017 will be released hybrid processors for laptops also use Zen architecture of computing cores.
By the way, Devinder Kumar mentioned the Zen architecture in yet another context. He hinted that the future "custom" AMD products designed specifically for the needs of specific large customers can use Zen architecture.