Amd Achieves 70% Yield In Zen 2 Chip Manufacturing
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In a recently revealed report, AMD's Zen 2 7nm arrays are claimed to be being manufactured with a performance rate of around 70%, which isn't bad for a new processor in a next-generation process node.
Zen 2 processors will be very profitable for AMD
This high rate of return means that 70% of the processors manufactured are suitable for sale to the consumer, while the rest are discarded or recycled. This would be very profitable for AMD, although it cannot be compared with the rate of return that Zen 1 has at the moment, as they warn.
28-core chips have a performance rate of only 35%
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While AMD's 14nm Zen arrays had higher yields than this, it must be remembered that we are facing the first moments of 7nm products, so this will improve over time. Still, this value would be higher than the performance Intel is getting. Intel's 28-core CPU arrays are said to have a performance rate of just 35%, a piece of data that would partly explain why processors with high numbers of Intel cores cost so much. This positions AMD with a great advantage to get benefits quickly with Zen 2 and those EPYC processors.
AMD's multichip-module (MCM) processor designs can deliver great value to consumers, to the point that many of its rivals are also working on their own multichip CPUs. MCM chip design appears to be the way to cut costs, rather than designing large arrays.
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