Amd zen: prepare a 32-core and 64-thread processor

Details emerge about AMD's new processor based on the AMD Zen x86 platform and which belongs to the Opteron family. The new 32-core, 64-thread processor is codenamed 'Naples' and has already entered the prototype phase, sources say.

AMD Zen 32-core processor codenamed 'Naples'

AMD unveiled at Taipei Computex the first Zen-based processor (Summit Ridge) with 8 cores and 16 threads to be marketed to the average user. Naples is another story, belonging to the Opteron line, AMD will seek to be an important option in the server market and compete against the Intel Xeon.

AMD knows that in the server sector, the parallelization of tasks is very important and that is why it will offer a 32-core processor based on Simultaneous Multi Threading technology, which would be capable of handling 64 threads at the same time, at present Intel has processors that handle up to a maximum of 48 threads.

Naples will seek to deal with Intel Xeon processors

So far it is unknown what the working frequencies of this processor will be but we know that AMD is returning to the monolithic core design, support for DDR4 memories of up to 8 channels and a L3 level cache of 64MB (again beating Intel in this aspect), so we can guess that it will not come short in terms of performance, but we will know this when the first copies arrive later this year.

How is so many cores possible?

Based on the Multi-Chip Module technology (a multichip module in Spanish) a configuration in which we would have four ZEN processors with eight cores and 16 threads each.

The theoretical maximum TDP that the Opteron will have based on the AMD Zen architecture will be 180W.