AMD's CEO Dr. Lisa Su confirmed duringthe company's Q1 2017 earnings call yesterday evening that Vega is on track for its Q2 2017 launch. The company's highly anticipated next generation graphics architecture is set to debut in the gaming, enterprise and professional workstation markets before the end of June.

The affirmation that Vega's on track was part of the company's just released Q1 earnings report, which sent the company's stock plummeting nearly 18% this morning. However, it's not all bad news. The company significantly grew revenue, gross margins and market share year on year. We'll have a more in-depth report courtesy of our own Usman Pirzadawhere he'll guide you through the nitty-gritty of the financials later today, so stay tuned for that. In the meantime, let's talk more about Vega.

AMD's "Vega" GPU architecture is on track to launch in Q2, and has been designed from scratch to address the most data- and visually-intensive next-generation workloads with key architecture advancements including: a differentiated memory subsystem, next-generation geometry pipeline, new compute engine, and a new pixel engine.

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The Vega architectureis Radeon's latest 14nm graphics architecture and represents the most significant step forward for the company since the introduction of the original Graphics Core Next architecturein 2011.Since then, GCN has gone into desktop and mobile graphics boards, professional solutions and every gaming console from Sony and Microsoft. Thishas made it thego-to architecture forgame developers world-wide.