During the Financial Analyst Day, AMD showed an interesting Roadmap of its architectures, showing an initial version of AMD Vega and a revision of it, the jump to 7nm in AMD Navy and a totally unknown 'Next Gen'.

Yesterday during AMD's Financial Analyst Day we could see many interesting things, which AMD's top officials explained to investors, although we will talk about the numbers later, now we are going to talk about the hardware. AMD showed the graphics Roadmap for the present and for the future, developing a timeline that begins in AMD Vega, a graphics architecture that starts from 14nm and evolves with 14nm +, goes towards AMD Navi, which all suggests that it will debut at the end of next year and a NextGen in 2020 that will be based on 7nm +.

We have been with AMD vega up and down for a long time, but the truth is that we do not have tangible data on these graphics cards, at the moment. We know that there will be several models in its gaming aspect, but AMD surprised by launching the AMD RX 500 Series, a rehash of the AMD RX 400 Series, which have been based on Polaris 10 and Polaris 11, minimally retouched and with overclocking. AMD's Roadmap makes it clear that Vega in 14nm is just the beginning and that they plan to launch a revision of Vega based on a refinement of 14nm, 14nm +, something that may be another rehash.

GlobalFoundries, who makes the graphics chips for AMD, does not currently have a manufacturing process based on 14nm +, come on, the manufacturer does not have anything with this nomenclature, so it seems quite clear that something similar to what happened with Polaris will happen. The problem with all this is that advances in the manufacturing nodes cause a slowdown in the development of the next node and development costs increase, this being the reason why we see a stagnation in 14nm, because moving forward is being more complex than the expected. You just have to see Intel, which has already released Skylake and Kaby Lake at 14nm and plans to release Basins Falls and Coffee Lake at 14nm. It should be noted that Intel is the only one that has 7nm ready and that they will be for Cannon Lake, but reaching 7nm has been a real torture.

We must highlight the 7nm, which appears in the AMD Roadmap, specifically Navi should have silicon chips that have 7nm transistors, something complex. GlobalFoundries is working very hard to develop 7nm and it is likely that AMD is pushing for this process to be done as soon as possible. Not only is AMD thinking about 7nm, it would also be thinking about scalability and next generation memory, to give more power and performance to its next architecture.

The replacement for Navi at the moment, that we know of, has no name and AMD has simply named it 'Next Gen', thus generating a three-year roadmap. AMD would already be thinking about an architecture, when the architecture to replace Vega is not yet clear. What we would highlight the most is that the term for a third graphics generation, AMD sets 2020, but it is not entirely clear if Navi will arrive in 2018 or 2019, since if AMD prepares a Vega review for next year, it seems quite unlikely that we will see in the same year what will happen in this year, two architectures converge in a rather hasty way.