AMD says its new Zen 4 processors will be based on TSMC’s 5 nm node and could arrive in early 2022, with IPC (non-core) gains similar to those of Zen 3.
The Red Team has just released its new Zen 3 architecture that powers the Ryzen 5000 series, with its new flagship Ryzen 9 5950X 16-core, 32-thread, 4.9 GHz CPU for $799, a crazy package. But it looks like AMD is not finished yet and is already thinking ahead.
The company plans to continue beating Intel next year with Zen 3 and secure dominance until 2022 when AMD would introduce Zen 4 to fight anything that Intel could bring. In fact, AMD could dominate the CPU market by 2023, as things develop.
In a recent interview, AMD Executive Vice President Rick Bergman spoke to The Street and said:
“Given the sophistication of x86 architecture today, the answer must include pretty much all of the above. If you looked at our Zen 3 white paper, it was this long list of things we did to achieve that 19% (IPC gain). Zen 4 will have a long list of similar things, analyzing everything from the cache to branch prediction. Everything will be analyzed to force more performance.”
“Surely the manufacturing process opens an extra door for us to get better performance per watt and so on, and we will use that.”