New generations amd zen will arrive manufactured at 7 nm

AMD already warned us that the arrival of Ryzen processors was just the tip of the iceberg of what was to come, after many years without being at the level expected of a company of its caliber, those of Sunnyvale have seen the exit of the pothole thanks to its new Zen microarchitecture that has been highly competitive from the first second. Zen has debuted in the process at 14nm from Global Foundries but has its sights set on 7nm.

AMD Zen will improve with 7nm

Mark Papemaster, Chief Technology Officer of AMD, has revealed something that many already took for granted, the new generations of the new architecture, dubbed Zen 2 and Zen 3, will arrive under a manufacturing process at 7 nm that will allow reaching new quotas of energy efficiency and performance.

AMD has had to make a very great effort in the design of a microarchitecture that has debuted at 14 nm but is fully compatible with the use of a process at 7 nm, without any doubt it has been worth it since we have experienced the jump highest processor performance in the last 10 years or even longer. If we look back, the move from Bulldozer to Zen has been something quite similar to what Intel experienced at the time with the move from Netburst to Core.

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AMD will continue its collaboration with Global Foundries and TSMC in the jump to 7 nm, the first will be in charge of continuing to manufacture their processors while the second will be in charge of producing their GPUs. Both have made a great effort in recent years and have greatly reduced the distance with Intel in manufacturing processes.

It will be from 2019 when Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography begins to be used, which means that the process at 7 nm will have already reached sufficient maturity to be used in the manufacture of highly complex chips such as x86 processors and the GPUs.

Zen 2 will arrive in 2019 at 7 nm, before we will have Zen + at an improved 14 nm.

Source: eetimes