Amd roadmap confirms 7nm starship processor with 48 zen 2 cores
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Today we have another leak from the guys at Wcctech (via VideoCardz), where AMD's plans for its upcoming enterprise-level processors are confirmed. Apparently, the Starship CPU will use the cores of the current Zen architecture, called Zen 2 and manufactured based on a 7nm FinFET process.
AMD plans for Starship, Naples and Snowy Owl CPUs revealed
The new processors confirm the fact that AMD is still interested in multi-core designs, since Starship will have a total of 48 cores and 96 threads, and despite this it will generate less heat than the chip it replaces, using a power of thermal design between 35W and 180W. These new chips will be sold under the Opteron name and will likely carry a model number 1701.
Starship CPUs will replace Naples in 2018, about which we already know a lot and know that they will use the architect Zeppelin. Although it has a thermal design similar to Starship, the number of Naples cores is less, specifically 32 cores and 64 threads. This indicates that there will be four interconnected Zeppelin boards, each with 8 cores in two CCX units.
The next CPU is Snowy Owl, which also uses Zeppelin cores and there will be models with 8, 12 and 16 cores. On the other hand, Snowy Owl will have support for four-channel DDR4 memory, 64 PCIe 3.0 rails and up to 16 SATA or NVMe storage devices. Its launch would be scheduled for the end of the year.
Finally, we have the new R Series APUs: Great Horned Owl, Banded Kestrel, Gray Hawk, and River Hawk. These low power chips will be based on the current Zen architecture with support for single-channel or two-channel DDR4 DIMMs. The CPUs will have 2 or 4 cores and thermal power designs between 15 and 65 W.
On the other hand, the Owl models will be paired with a graphic core with 11 computational units, while Kestrel will have 3 CUs.
According to the slides published on the portal mentioned above, the new APUs will have support for 4K video at 60FPS and for up to 4 4K monitors, which is impressive for such a small processor.
Finally, these slides point to a mysterious MCM (multi-chip module) product that would arrive this year with 4GB of RAM, 10 computing units and support for five Display Ports in dual mode.
Source: wccftech
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