Although it is a long time before AMD Zen 3 processors hit the market, the company is already talking about them and 7nm + EUV lithography.
The 2nm lithography AMD Zen 7 processors are still a little while away, specifically expected to arrive in early 2019. The company already seems to be thinking about the next step and have talked about the technology-based Zen 3 architecture Extreme Ultraviolet Litography (EUV), which will be used to give life to the 7nm + lithography. It will be TSMC who will manufacture the processors under this lithography that will reach the market between the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020.
AMD already talks about the Zen 3 architecture under the 7nm + EUV lithography.
It will be a new manufacturing process that will allow the development of a new and optimized processor, which will improve especially in terms of energy efficiency, but performance in this case will not take a significant leap. The improvement in consumption will be important especially in laptops and will be the prelude to the Zen 4 architecture.
There is still a long way to go until these products arrive, but AMD is making good use of the advantage it has taken in the field of lithography, exploiting the 7nm that will give the Zen 3 processors.
“TSMC may have been measuring a basic device like a ring oscillator. Our statements are for a real product. "
"Moore's Law is slowing down, the nodes are more expensive, and we are not getting the frequency rise that we used to get," TSMC said in a talk during launch, dubbed the 7nm migration.
In the future future, a node above 7nm using extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) "will primarily exploit efficiency with some modest opportunities to improve device performance."
Source: wccftech
