AMD Tech Day at CES: 2018 Roadmap Revealed, with Ryzen APUs, Zen+ on 12nm, Vega on 7nm
by Ian Cutress on February 1, 2018 8:45 AM ESTZen and Vega: Ryzen PRO Mobile
In the second half of last year, AMD’s Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom division (now the Enterprise and Embedded division) launched its Ryzen PRO family of desktop processors, for business customers that needed additional management capabilities. AMD has been making ‘Pro’ versions of its consumer processors for several generations now, usually mimicking the specifications of the consumer products aside from the management support.
These products, by and large, go up against Intel’s equivalent vPro processors, and AMD’s value add revolves around support for DASH, an open-source management protocol, TSME (transparent secure memory encryption), and its commitment to customer requests such as operating system image stability (18-months), guaranteed processor availability (24-months), manufacturing specifications designed for long-term reliability, and a commercial limited warranty (36-months). AMD also likes to tout that it offers a Pro product at the lower end of the market, where Intel does not have a vPro-enabled Core i3.
As part of the AMD Tech Day, it was announced that the Ryzen PRO Mobile family will be launched in Spring 2018. These components are, by and large, the Ryzen Mobile family of processors with Vega graphics but with the added Pro features listed above. For performance and power, AMD states similar sorts of numbers as it did with the launch of Ryzen Mobile: up to 270% better performance per watt, targeting 13 hours of useful battery life, 9 hours of HD video playback, and targeting a generation of sleek and powerful laptops, in this case focused for the Enterprise market.
So much like the Ryzen 7 2700U, the Ryzen 5 2500U, and the Ryzen 3 2300U, AMD will launch the Ryzen PRO Mobile equivalents:
We are likely to see OEMs that currently provide AMD A-Series PRO notebooks to offer updated versions with these new processors, as well as a series of new designs coming into the business and enterprise market.
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haukionkannel - Thursday, February 1, 2018 - link
Spectre fix is promised to Zen2 so Zen+ does not have it. Zen2 has one year time to have some modifications and they already have had about half year to plan those upgrades. Too late for Zen+ but fortunately enough for Zen2 released sometime in 2019. It may be so that Zen2 will come later to the market than Zen+ will depending on how much they need to hone the process.FreckledTrout - Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - link
Thanks Ian. Any news if Navi will have more than one GPU die on a chip, say something similar to what AMD did with Zen via Infinity Fabric?haukionkannel - Thursday, February 1, 2018 - link
That is what is guessed. To go from one big core to many smaller cores. Who knows...at80eighty - Thursday, February 1, 2018 - link
get well soon. articles can come laterAzethoth - Thursday, February 1, 2018 - link
I would love to see GPU articles on unavailable miner only cards be retroactively removed.Don't waste my time with useless bullshit that costs $1600 even though the manufacturer is happy with a fat profit at $500 MSRP.
slickr - Wednesday, February 7, 2018 - link
Aren't you a team of 3-4 writers that go on these events, so one person getting sick doesn't necessarily cancel all info?forgerone - Sunday, March 11, 2018 - link
It would appear that AMD is making Vega GPU's for ASRock MXM mining boards.IntelUser2000 - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
Radeon 530 is not Polaris. It uses older 28nm architecture.Ian Cutress - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
My bad, I misread a spec table. Updatedmateau - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
@Ian..."It is our understanding that the 12nm process is essentially a 14+ process for GloFo"
Forbes disagrees with you. And Forbes IS a credible source that does not plagiarize work form essentially online media hacks.
"Later this year, AMD will also be refreshing the Ryzen desktop lineup including their Threadripper and Pro processors with a new Zen+ core that is based on GlobalFoundries new 12nm process, which should deliver more performance at lower power."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2018/...