Amd details its roadmap until 2020, zen 5 looms on the horizon

AMD has officially unveiled its current work plan for processors based on the Zen architecture until 2020. The Sunnyvale company already has a fairly clear roadmap for the next two years, where we will have different generations of Ryzen based on different architectures, Zen 2, 3 and even Zen 5.

AMD already works on Zen 5 with 3nm process

We recently reported that the company would start testing its next Zen 2-based kernel with 7nm over the next few months, and not just for desktop variants, but for Threadripper servers as well. AMD is projecting far beyond Zen 2, with an already established plan.

Zen 3 will be the next step once Ryzen 2000 processors are fully released in stores, as well as a new batch of 500 series chipsets for the first half of 2019.

AMD unveils roadmap for its CPUs through 2020 - Zen 2 and Zen 3 at 7nm and 7nm +, Zen 5 at 3nm

The Zen 2 design is officially finished, AMD has confirmed it, and work is well underway for its successor Zen 3 based on an improved version of the 7nm manufacturing process, currently nicknamed 7nm +.

The company's chief CPU architect also announced earlier this year that CPU engineering teams have already started work on Zen 5, which the technology says will be based on the 3nm Glolablfoundries manufacturing process, since it seems that AMD is going to completely skip 5nm. There is no solid information available on Zen 4 as of yet, with some rumors stating that it will be completely omitted.

There is a rumor going around that indicates that AMD would increase the number of cores for Ryzen 3000 processors, by up to 12 and 16 cores. This is not confirmed, but we will have to keep an eye on all the information that will emerge about Zen 3 from next year.

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