AMD wants to improve the CPI by at least 7% in each new generation of Zen
The year 2019 has been one of the best in history for AMD, which has managed to take flight after years in decline. The decade did not start well for the company, it was even on the verge of bankruptcy, but it has closed in style. Mark Papermaster, AMD CTO, has spoken at Anandtech and has said that the goal is to continue improving the CPI of Zen architecture.
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A while ago we announced that AMD has exceeded 65% of the processor market share in Spain. Intel has high prices, problems meeting demand, and remains stuck at 14nm. The Zen3000 @ 2nm-based Ryzen 7 processors have been a huge leap forward and people are aware of this.
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They want to improve the CPI by 7% in each Zen generation, at least
Papermaster has commented that after finishing the design of Zen3 they are already working on Zen4 and Zen5. He has also talked about the IPC improvement they hope to get in their next generations of processors. He noted that the AMD Roadmap has a cadence of 12-18 months, which is quite interesting.
Following the idea, the Ryzen 7 were launched on July 3000, which places the arrival of Zen2020 more or less in the summer of 3. These new processors will be based on Zen3 @ 7nm +, increasing the number of transistors and slightly the frequencies.
Perhaps the most relevant and important data that Papermaster has given is in the future of Zen architecture. Papermaster has highlighted that there is a team developing Zen4 and another team developing Zen5, so we have two different teams working on the architecture of the golden eggs from AMD. The two divisions work simultaneously to streamline the process and development of the chips.
It is also relevant that Papermaster sets a minimum target of an annual CPI improvement of 7%, always seeking to exceed it. Zen2 improved the IPC by 15% over Zen +, and Zen3 is expected to improve the IPC by 17% over Zen2.
We have said before that the industry has had a 7% annual growth rate in monofilament performance, and we aim to exceed this with each generation of our products.
