AMD recently unveiled its plans and roadmap for the next few years in terms of market deployment and processor architecture, following the plan previously established by the Zen 3 and Zen 4 architectures.
AMD Zen 4 and Zen 3, updating their roadmaps for the enterprise and consumer markets
AMD presented its CPU roadmap for its enterprise portfolio, which for several reasons offers more vision than its consumer side. First, the business market is built on a longer product cycle, and it helps in planning these systems to know what lies behind them in the long-term future, but also from an investor’s perspective, where the business market ultimately offers the greatest financial opportunities.
Genoa’s Zen 4 has already been announced as the CPU for the El Capitan supercomputer, and in this roadmap, AMD has made it available for 2022. AMD stated that this type of chart does not indicate what time in 2022 will be the launch, it could be the beginning or end of 2022. Given AMD’s recent 12-15 month cadence with the EPYC generations and the release of Milan expected by the end of this year, we would expect Genoa to see ‘Zen 4’ in early 2022.
We also noticed that Milan / Zen 3 was listed as ‘7nm’ where it was previously listed as ‘7nm+’. When TSMC listed their EUV version of 7nm as N7+, it was assumed that it was the same version, and AMD wanted to clarify that Milan is in a 7nm version, and the exact version will be announced later. In the future, the company will avoid using the ‘+’ to prevent this from happening again. Genoa, on the other hand, is produced in 5 nm.
Finally, the company made it clear that Zen 3 will reach the consumer market “by the end of this year”, i.e. by the end of 2020. We will keep you informed.