Amd to release 12nm Ryzen 2 in March 2018
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It hasn't been too long for AMD to take the next step with its ZEN architecture-based processors. Ryzen 2 is set to storm the market in the early months of 2018 with an improvement in the manufacturing process at 12nm.
AMD has everything ready for Ryzen 2 "Pinnacle Ridge"
The next generation of AMD Ryzen 2 CPUs is set to debut in March 2018. The new lineup of the 2000 series Ryzen 7, Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3 microprocessors is said to provide higher clock speeds, higher capacity. overclocking and will support faster DDR4 RAM.
Ryzen 2 '' Pinnacle Ridge '' will debut on the market with the Ryzen 7 model at the end of February and will end with the releases of Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3 during the month of March. The new chips will be manufactured using Globalfoundries ' 12nm “Leading Performance” process node and will feature the enhanced ZEN + microarchitecture. With these improvements we should expect higher performance than current Ryzen and greater overclocking capabilities.
AMD is ahead of Intel and its 9000 series
With this move, AMD would be a few months ahead of the launch of the Intel 9000 series, which is expected, more or less, for the month of June. This new series would offer a greater number of cores to be compared to those that Ryzen offers on the market today.
It is still too early to comment on the improvements in the ZEN + microarchitecture, but only with the new 12nm manufacturing process, we should see higher frequencies and an improvement in energy consumption.
On the other hand, Ryzen Mobile processors are expected in April and Ryzen Pro should debut in May.
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Amd confirms that Ryzen arrives in early March
Lisa Su confirms that Ryzen processors will hit the market in early March, and availability will be immediate.
Amd Ryzen hits stores on March 2
Finally we have the official release date for the new AMD Ryzen processors, based on the new Zen architecture.
