Naples AMD server is called Epyc
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Huge chip showcased

Lisa Su, AMD’s CEO, has showed the first Naples chip and, trust us, it looks good. 

AMD working on 7nm 48 core processor
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Exclusive: Codename Starship

Fudzilla warned you that AMD's 32core / 64 tread X86 processor codenamed Naples is coming in 2017 to a server near you, but it looks like AMD has a 7nm product called Starship which will arrive soon afterwards. 

AMD’s Zen-based Opteron will have 32 cores
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8 channel DDR-4 support

A computer engineer at CERN has leaked information about AMD’s doings for Operon after Zen becomes its architecture of choice.

ARM chips no help to AMD
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Not doing as well as expected

Buried in the AMD results was a note which seemed to hint that AMD's plan to flog ARM based server chips was not going very well.

32 core Opteron supports 2P sockets
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140W max TDP

Opteron processors based on the Zen architecture are coming in 2016 (hopefully) and we expect to see them using 14nm GlobalFoundries' manufacturing process. 

The next generation Opteron has 32 Zen x86 cores
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No APU, 16MB L2, 64MB L3 cache

We recently showed you a new 16 Zen core next generation processor with Greenland integrated graphics and DDR4 support. 

12- and 16-core Opteron 6338P and 6370P



Blasphemic x86-ARM mixed racks possible



Opteron X2150 APU and X1150 CPU

Steamroller in mid-2014