Interesting times.
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Another AMD paper launch.😂😂😂😂😂
"All of AMD’s Ryzen CPUs though will come multiplier unlocked so they can have their clockspeeds tweaked to within an inch of their lives. There may be specific overclocking variants of AMD’s next-gen processor range, but that doesn’t mean the other chips in the Ryzen family will be locked down.
The only real restrictions seem to come from the chipset side of the equation where the high-end X370 motherboards will have support for full range of Ryzen overclocking, the B350 will have a more limited form of overclocking while the entry-level A320 boards won’t support overclocking at all."
https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/amd-ryzen-cpu-family
AMD are avoiding a Ryzen hex by launching only quad and octo-core Zen chips
"Su added that the profit margins for both Ryzen and Vega will be well above AMD’s average. Those aren't showing up in the current earnings, obviously. AMD reported a net loss of $51 million, though the company claimed $26 million in operating income when tossing out expenses. AMD reported a 7 percent increase in revenue from a year ago, to $1.1 billion. A year ago, AMD reported a net loss of $102 million.
Unlike prior quarters, AMD’s earnings were driven by its PC businesses, as opposed to the SoC chips that power gaming consoles and other products. AMD’s Computing and Graphics business generated $600 million in revenue, up 28 percent year-over-year. AMD said the growth was driven by GPU sales, specifically higher GPU prices. Put another way, GPU revenue was the highest in 11 quarters, Su said, and PC client revenue was the highest in the last seven quarters. Su offered no predictions for the success of Microsoft’s Project Scorpio and Sony’s next-generation console, however; “we’ll see how they do,” she said.
AMD predicted that revenue would drop by 11 percent (plus or minus 3 percent) in the current quarter, however, indicating that AMD won’t have as much to offer before Ryzen’s launch. That’s because AMD wanted to clear out its channel inventory, Su explained, before Ryzen officially ships.
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For the lazy:
AMD graphics and gaming console has been doing well. And it's bankrolling the Ryzen development costs.
What was a surprise during their earnings call is that their new graphics GPU (Vega) will also be launched in Q2... Looks like AMD is aiming to try to grab both some processor business and graphics GPU business.
There earnings, though a 1 cent loss, was better than expected and much better versus last year same time.
Dr Su seems to be right-siding this ship.
AMD confirms its Ryzen CPU will launch in early March, followed by the Vega GPU
AMD's roadmap looks busy: Ryzen, Vega, Naples, then Raven Ridge.
“There will be widespread system availability from day one,” Su said during the call. Channel vendors will receive the first Ryzen chips, along with system integrators. More traditional hardware vendors will come later, Su added.
That statement implies that vendors like Dell or HP (neither of which have been officially confirmed to be using the Ryzen chip) will be asked to wait, while AMD caters to boutique PC vendors. Ryzen will take on Intel’s highest-end Core chips, specifically the Core i5 and Core i7 processors, Su said.
Why this matters: AMD has said previously that it believes Ryzen to be the most significant consumer product it will introduce in well over a decade, with its subsequent Naples chip helping to extend AMD and its Zen architecture into the higher-margin server business. For the last several years, AMD’s shipments into the console business have propped up the company’s revenues while Ryzen was developed, but as both the Microsoft Xbox One and Sony PlayStation 4 move into their fifth year of life, AMD isn't depending on the console any more.
Hints of the Zen roadmap
Unsurprisingly, Su also confirmed that AMD is already thinking about the follow-ons to Ryzen: Su referred to a “Zen 2” and a “Zen 3,” and confirmed that AMD is also developing with 7-nm technology in mind. That will help offset any concerns hardware partners have about competing with Intel, she said. “Our top customers—they are investing in our roadmap, they are not just investing in a point product,” Su said.
Su’s comments seemingly back up what a Game Developers Conference presentation revealed earlier: that Ryzen would launch before March 3. (Su didn’t specifically confirm our report sourced from the GDC document, however.) Su also revealed that its Zen-based server product, Naples, will launch in the second quarter.
What’s new, though, is a Vega timetable: Su revealed that the Vega GPUs will ship during the second quarter as well. In the second half of 2017, AMD still plans to launch a Zen-based APU, codenamed “Raven Ridge,” primarily designed for notebooks but also some desktops.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3163500/components/amd-confirms-its-ryzen-cpu-will-launch-in-early-march-followed-by-the-vega-gpu.html
6 core or 8 core