Amd shows a zen summit ridge processor
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After announcing the Radeon RX480, AMD has put the finishing touch on its presence at Computex 2016 by showing the public one of its most anticipated products, none other than one of the first Summit Ridge processors with the Zen microarchitecture.
Summit Ridge and Zen are shown live on Computex
Lisa Su has closed AMD's presence at Computex in the best way, has shown a Summit Ridge processor with Zen live, it is one of the first engineering samples so it is a chip that has not reached maturity. Summit Ridge will be AMD's new high-performance processors for the AM4 socket and will initially arrive in configurations of up to 8 cores and 16 threads. Bristol Ridge will also use the arriving AM4 platform to unify both high-performance processors and APUs in the same socket.
Not many details about Summit Ridge have been revealed but it has been confirmed that the Zen architecture offers a CPI improvement of 40% compared to Excavator, which can be a 70-75% improvement compared to the first AMD FX Zambezi. Summit Ridge is still in development, but AMD will begin shipping samples of its first prototype with engineering samples in a few weeks' time and more samples will arrive in the third quarter.
Lisa Su confirmed that Zen will be the foundation for a wide range of products, AMD will be using Zen as the foundation for its eighth-generation Raven Ridge APUs that could include HBM memory.
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