According to foreign media reports, AMD announced last week 2016 Q4 quarter and full-year earnings. In the earnings conference online AMD CEO Su Zifeng mentioned AMD's future product line, revealed that there will be Zen 2 and Zen 3 product launch, while 7nm products have been in research and development.
It is understood that, AMD or in the first quarter of this year, the official launch of Vega graphics and Zen processors, these two products is the key to AMD to return to high-performance market, to reverse the 2017 AMD operating conditions of great significance. At the same time AMD CEO Su Zifeng also think Zen processor will be very competitive. QCA150A60
"The top OME customers - notably servers and data center customers - are actually product roadmaps, so they are not just buying a product from AMD," he said. "AMD is currently working on multi-generation products, including the Zen 2 and Zen 3 processors.
In fact, as early as last year, AMD's 7nm product plan has surfaced. AMD announced in September 2016 that it will jointly develop a 7nm process for Global Foundries ("GF", Grodnode). And this agreement is valid from 2016 to 2020, a period of five years. Under the agreement, AMD will continue to purchase GF wafers by the end of 2020, and will work together to advance the 7nm process. This is likely to indicate that AMD's graphics cards and CPU will skip 10nm, straight to kill 7nm. But the two sides of the procurement agreement is not exclusive, starting in 2017 AMD will also purchase wafers to other foundries, and to pay a certain amount of money to GF. QM150DY-H
In contrast, Intel's 10nm process will be extended. Intel's latest road map shows that in 2018 debut Coffee Lake (eighth generation Core) will push six core products, but the process is still using 14nm process technology. Nevertheless, Intel has announced that this year in the pilot plant will test 7nm chip production process. Although they did not mention when the chip will begin mass production, but at least not in the next 2-3 years.
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