AMD CTO discusses 7nm EPYC and Vega 7nm
Both TSMC don’t worry about GloFo
The news that GlobalFoundries is walking away from 7nm manufacturing brought a lot of uncertainty to AMD’s roadmap and Mark Papermaster the CTO of the company has just posted a blog comforting investors and assuring customers that both CPU and GPU designs at 7nm are in safe hands at TSMC.
AMD has great quarter but margins low
No notebooks and slim EPYC
AMD got mostly positive comments on its financial performance in Q2 18, and it did a great job having the highest quarter in five years. The logic behind this data is that AMD had more than five years of very weak product portfolio to sell especially in desktop/data center and since early 2017 they finally have Ryzen on desktop and EPYC on the data center side.
The reason why AMD's Vega power was high
Power optimization engineers went to EPYC
It is no big secret that Vega 64 and 56 had quite high thermals and didn’t actually meet some of its performance targets. Some key power optimization engineers were pulled from the Vega team to the more important goal. The Naples server chip had a higher priority.
AMD 7nm CPU to sample this year
Number of products in 2019
AMD was asked about its 7nm products and, as we reported last week, the 7nm GPU for AI has been taped out and apparently so is the 7nm server CPU.
AMD Ryzen and EPYC have big security flaws
Only given a week to fix it
Insecurity experts have discovered critical security flaws in AMD chips that could allow attackers to access sensitive data from highly guarded processors across millions of devices.
AMD expands Epyc and Ryzen lines
Wants a golden age for high-performance embedded processors
AMD has expanded its Epyc and Ryzen product lines to create what it is calling a "new age for high-performance embedded processors".
AMD wins as Dell goes EPYC
Three new PowerEdge servers get AMD EPYC 7000
AMD has scored another major win as Dell EMC has signed up for its EPYC data centre processors.
Analysts expect AMD to go EPYC
If it can claw back 10 percent of the server market it will be in clover
AMD had a pretty good year this year, but that did not appear to do much for its share price which remained fairly static.
AMD is not as bad as Morgan Stanley thinks
Let’s downgrade them when making money
AMD took a bit hit after Morgan Stanley’s Joseph Moore thought he'd figured out AMD, and he doesn’t see rosy things for the company.
Noctua releases three AMD Threadripper and EPYC coolers
Proper base for the TR4 and SP3 sockets
Noctua has unveiled three CPU coolers that have a proper design to cool AMD's new massive Ryzen Threadripper and EPYC series CPUs on TR4 and SP3 sockets, the NH-U14S TR4-SP3, NH-U12S TR4-SP3 and the NH-U9 TR4-SP3.