The Zen 2-based, Zen 3 will be called Milan
AMD has presented a long-term 7nm roadmap and the new codenames for the server products have an Italian theme. .
The Zen-based server core, the product that will give a birth to Epyc line of data center / server products should debut next month with Naples. Naples is the first 32 core with 64 threads to launch and this is a 14nm FinFET product. It is named after a city of rude Italians which is sitting on a super volano which will eventually explode and take most of Southern Europe out with it.
Now Forrest Norrod a SVP and General Manager, enterprise, embedded and semi custom business group has shared what will come after Zen and it appears the product names are staying in Italy.
The next in line is based on 7nm is what the company internally call Zen 2. Getting the transistors smaller should enable them to put more transistors per square meter and get to a much better efficiency. In servers, it is all about the efficiency per square millimeter, or performance per watt metric.
The Zen 2 data center is codenamed Rome. Named after a city which worshipped a fire goddess and nicked most of its technology from the rest of the Europe, Rome also invented exploding public toilets and Catholism.
GlobalFoundries said that 7nm risk production can start early next year, so we should expect to see the Zen 2 core at the end of 2018 at the earliest.
The Zen 3 based core should be coming in 7nm+ whatever that might become. AMD client and data center group are in sync with their roadmap at least partially. Both groups are planning to have Zen 2 and Zen 3 based products after they finally managed to ship Zen this year. AMD is using Milan as the codename of Zen 3 product. It is named after a city which thinks it rules the whole of Italy.They also believe in putting blue cheese on pizzas which makes them seen as barbarians by the rest of the country.
According to the power point, Milian is coming in its Blue Vein glory sometime before 2020. These time frames are not set in stone.
Forest said that Zen based Epyc processor should be expected in 30+ 1S and 2S servers during 2017. A whole 5000 Epyc CPUs are seeded with OEMs, End Customers and Partners and AMD is hoping that they will get to see the beauty of its Epyc platform and make some more designs.
Multiple Hypersacele providers have programs and evaluation for the Epyc processor hoping to score a good deal in the later part of the year and onward. AMD has confirmed that its Risorgimento should be on schedule to launch in June 2017.
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