Re:Intel 28-core fantasy vs. AMD 32-core reality
by BlackMonday on Monday June 11, 2018 @03:48PM
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They maxed out the number of cores they can ship in a single CPU for now but that doesn't seem like a problem.
AMD will already launch their 7nm EPYC processor based on Zen 2 in 2019 (skipping Zen+ used by the new Threadripper and Ryzen 2xxx) which is expected to have 48 cores (some rumors even suggest 64 cores but that seems more likely for 7nm EUV instead of the first 7nm processes). So they will have no problem releasing more cores with Threadripper 3 next year (if they keep the yearly releases).
On top of that, in my layman eyes AMDs aproach of using infinity fabric to connect dies seems better suited to react to changes compared to Intels monolithic design.
AMD will already launch their 7nm EPYC processor based on Zen 2 in 2019 (skipping Zen+ used by the new Threadripper and Ryzen 2xxx) which is expected to have 48 cores (some rumors even suggest 64 cores but that seems more likely for 7nm EUV instead of the first 7nm processes). So they will have no problem releasing more cores with Threadripper 3 next year (if they keep the yearly releases).
On top of that, in my layman eyes AMDs aproach of using infinity fabric to connect dies seems better suited to react to changes compared to Intels monolithic design.