The release of AMD's next-generation architecture "Zen" is announced, and it is clear that all sockets are unified by CPU and APU

AMD, a major CPU for computers, announces the prospects for future CPUs at CES 2016, an international home appliance trade fair. Next-generation microarchitecture "Zen"We announced that we will release the CPU of the generation within 2016 as planned. It is also clear that the CPU sockets that are divided into three are now unified.

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AMD is the CES 2016 venue, codenamed "Zen" generation of the next generation microarchitecture "Summit Ridge"For high-end CPU and code name"Bristol RidgeMainstream ofAPU(Graphic built-in CPU), as planned so far, will be released within 2016 again.

Bristol Ridge is a successor model of the current APU "Kaveri", it is manufactured with 28 nm process rule, Summit Ridge is currently AMD's high-end CPU · FX series (Vishera), A new architecture Zen is adopted and is manufactured with 14 nm FinFET. About the Zen generation Summit Ridge, which is said to improve performance by 40%, IPC (number of instructions executed per clock) was partly delayed in production, but AMD emphasized that it will be released again within 2016 It is shape.


Furthermore, the CPU (APU) socket, which is currently divided from AM 3 + / FM 2 + / AM 1 in the Zen generation CPU · APU released in the future including the 7th generation APU · Bristol Ridge using the old architecture,AM4It was announced that it was unified into one kind as a socket. In Summit Ridge and Bristol Ridge, DDR4 memory is adopted, DDR3 memory is not expected to be supported. It is also disclosed that the 8th generation APU adopted Zen microarchitecture will be released in the second half of 2017.


Apart from Summit Ridge and Bristol Ridge, which was announced within 2016, AMD also announced a new retail CPU cooler "Wraith Cooler". By increasing the surface area of ​​the heat sink by 24% and the air flow by 34% compared with the conventional model, the noise of the fan is reduced to 1/10 of the equivalent cooling performance ratio.


Wraith Cooler's quietness can be understood in a single shot by watching the following movie.

Acoustic Demo of AMD Wraith Cooler - YouTube


Conventional CPU cooler. Move the fans ......


I started to turn around with a blast. With the retail CPU cooler, the noise at full load is pretty.


Meanwhile, this is Wraith Cooler, a new CPU cooler. You can see that the heat sink is thinner and the thickness of the fan is increasing.


The difference in quietness is obvious when turning the fan. You can see that it seems that it can not bear that it is clearly quiet. In addition, the fan has built-in LED, and casually devised that the AMD logo emerges is given.


Besides these, the new high end APU "A10-7890K" of FM2 + socket will be released in Q1 (January to March) in 2016 and the AM3 + / FM2 + motherboard with USB 3.1 and M.2 slots It is also clear that it will be released. If the new generation microarchitecture "Zen" will finally come out, it will also support the HDMI 2.0a and 4K H.265 decode / encode that will also appear in 2016, and will be the next generation GPU "Polaris" architecture with excellent power saving performance Coupled with existence, AMD seems to be good news for AMD users as it is a turn that AMD will rewind in 2016. In addition, Intel users are also welcomed, as it can be expected that the current situation that Intel will tore apologize due to the slump in AMD can be improved.