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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T1beriu - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
^This.serendip - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
Come on AMD, please come up with something in the <4W TDP range for tablets and ultralights. I'm thinking of something that slots in between Apollo Lake Atom and Intel Y-series but with better GPUs than either of those. Gotta be cheap too.PixyMisa - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
The 2200U looks like the right part, just constrain the TDP further.jjj - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
Is there any news on their Nitero buy?jimjamjamie - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
192 core Radeon GPU in 2018, wewPork@III - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
AMD has previously announced that Navy will have a PCI-E 4.0 interface. Either way, in 2018. the new motherboards(4XX series) will be with the current PCI-E 3.0, so it seems logical for Navy to be on the market in the spring of 2019 when the next-generation motherboards (5XX series) will no longer have full maintenance of the PCI-E 4.0.itonamd - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
Cool for ultrathin. Great jobstipoo - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
>Radeon 530 discrete GPU, which has 384 compute units based on AMD’s older GCN 1.0 architecture.1.0? Is there even any cost savings to integrating such an old architecture? Not even a later GCN within the same fab...
R3MF - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
"Also included at AMD’s event were a number of side announcements that we will also go into. This includes (but is not limited to): Custom Radeon Vega Designs"Please! More info, including any information on when (if?) AMD intend to ramp production so AIB vendors can do more than periodically run small batches of custom Vega cards through a factory (at greater expense).
Pinn - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
Are they going to lie about Vega 7nm as well? Is Volta going to wait for Navi?