In commenting on the financial results of the second quarter, of which we have provided our analysis at this address, AMD has anticipated some preliminary information on future products that will be introduced in the near future.
In the course of 2022, the American company will present Ryzen processors based on Zen architecture 4, evolution of the Zen 3 adopted for the Ryzen 5000 CPUs currently available on the market. Always next year will be the time ofRDNA 3 architecture for video cards, to take the place of the RDNA 2 one currently adopted for Radeon RX 6000 video cards.
Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, had previously indicated that Ryzen processors based on the Zen 4 architecture will be built with 5 nanometer production technology, placing the die next to the I / O chip built with a 6 nanometer process instead. At the moment it is not clear with which production technology the RDNA3 GPUs will be built: it is possible that the 5-nanometer process is adopted or AMD may opt for the 6-nanometer one.
What will be the characteristics of Ryzen processors based on Zen 4 architecture? Specific details are missing if not vague indications of an increase in CPI quantifiable in an almost specular way to that recorded with the Zen 3 CPUs (+ 19% in that case). On previous occasions Lisa Su has not ruled out that in the future of Ryzen CPUs there may be room for versions equipped with a greater amount of cores compared to what is present at the moment. We can therefore expect Ryzen processor versions with a greater number of cores than the current 16 and the same could be true for the 64 cores that are equipped with at most the Ryzen Threadripper processors.
AMD finally confirmed that the first accelerators Instinct MI200 “Aldebaran” have been shipped to customers; these are video cards dedicated to parallel computing in datacenter, which will find a place inside the Frontier supercomputer of the exascale class expected to debut by the end of 2021. This is a major market success for AMD, which has long been working to expand its presence in the lucrative datacenter industry with both EPYC processors and Instinct family accelerators. These are some of the next generation technological solutions with which AMD aims to continue that market expansion well evidenced by the recent financial results.