AMD confirms Zen 7 CPU plans, presents take a look at GPU, NPU roadmap

AMD’s roadmap marches on: the corporate confirmed the presence of its next-generation Zen 7 structure, and talked briefly concerning the firm’s next-generation PC graphics roadmap as effectively.

AMD hosted a day for monetary analysts on Tuesday, outlining its companies for a cadre of Wall Road buyers and analysts. Sadly, the agenda mirrored AMD’s new company priorities: with the majority of AMD’s income now coming from its datacenter enterprise, AMD scheduled simply twenty minutes for its consumer companies. AMD chief govt Lisa Su additionally recognized the datacenter as “essentially the most strategic enterprise” for AMD.

Earlier than it did, nevertheless, AMD additionally revealed some temporary particulars of its architectural roadmaps., the place AMD chief know-how officer Mark Papermaster introduced that AMD was engaged on Zen 7, its next-generation CPU structure. That may underpin AMD’s Ryzen CPUs, the place within the desktop Su stated that AMD instructions over 50 p.c of the desktop CPU channel.

“We’ve delivered 5 generations of the Zen CPU,” Papermaster stated. “We cut up it into excessive efficiency variations, energy and compact, cloud optimized model additionally utilized in our networks, however all sustaining a consistency of instruction set structure. We went the place no firm was prepared to go within the guess we made with chiplets.”

AMD’s Zen 5 structure is the inspiration of the Ryzen 9000 household. The Zen 6 structure will debut within the firm’s next-gen EPYC processor for servers, debuting this 12 months, Papermaster stated.

Papermaster didn’t say something about Zen 7, although he confirmed it on a roadmap slide. (That slide didn’t embody an estimated ship date, both.) AMD continues to stagger its design groups, assigning one group to every structure technology and going forwards and backwards. (That implies that the Zen 5 group is now shifting to work on Zen 7.) AMD additionally continues to develop two sorts of cores for every Zen structure, one specializing in efficiency and the opposite specializing in energy.

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Papermaster additionally offered an early take a look at AMD’s desktop graphics roadmap, although with out revealing many particulars. AMD is equally all for bettering the efficiency of its desktop GPUs in addition to different edge purposes the place it might probably apply GPU compute.

Papermaster additionally confirmed off a number of the enhancements AMD is contemplating for its NPU roadmap as effectively. There, AMD plans extra AI TOPS and extra energy effectivity, with out going into particulars.

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Jack Huynh, the senior vp who heads the Computing and Graphics Group at AMD, didn’t go into further particulars, although he did point out that AMD plans to maneuver into edge AI in addition to its present markets within the cellular, workstation, and desktop markets.

AMD has a “no compromise” PC technique he stated, infusing AI into every little thing the corporate does.

“We’ve constructed large momentum, and we’ve a transparent path to market management,” Huynh stated. “Now we’re getting into a brand new period. AI is reworking the PC expertise and redefining what compute means throughout each system in our portfolio. This isn’t simply one other product cycle, it’s a as soon as in a technology shift in the direction of increasing our alternative throughout each section. Our subsequent chapter is about scaling the consumer enterprise, deepening our council benefit, and unlocking new development with AI on the edge. If I can depart you one thought immediately, it’s we’re prepared to steer the gaming and AI PC period.”