Amd zen will only be sold with 8 and 6 cores

The arrival of Zen architecture for AMD's new processors is dangerously close to its release dates for the last quarter of this year, and today we have fresh news on the strategy AMD is devising for this new generation of chips. The relevant fact is that AMD is thinking of selling only AMD Zen processors with 8 16 We edit: and 6 cores (octa and hexa-core), disregarding the dual-core and quad-core dual and quad-core processors respectively.

The data comes directly from the Bitsandchips site and ensures that AMD will sell from the beginning processors of six, eight and sixteen cores, definitely leaving behind the options of two and four cores with which we were accustomed for many years. This AMD strategy would have to do exclusively with the lowering of production costs and with the Zen x86 architecture itself, which would greatly benefit from such a number of cores (although it will also depend on the software that takes advantage of it).

New processors and new AM4 socket

AMD knows that it cannot compete against Intel processors on equal terms, so it will try to offer processors with more cores at the same cost or less than the competition, something that it is currently doing with the FX series. As AMD has shown, the architecture of AMD Zen x86 processors would allow 40% more IPC (instructions per clock), this would be a great performance gain compared to the previous Vishera architecture.

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Although from Bitsandchips they do not rule out that in the future there may be 4-core processors, they see it as very unlikely in the early stages of AMD Zen on the market. Remember that the new "Zen" processors will use a new AM4 socket, both for the Zen "Summit Ridge" (FX series) and the "Bristol Ridge" (APU series).

What do you think about AMD Zen? Are you as impatient as we are?