AMD is getting ready to preview their next-generation hardware tomorrow at the Next Horizon event but while that event would give us a look at what red team has to offer to consumers and corporate sector, we also have some rumors regarding the much awaited Zen 2 architecture as posted by Chiphell forums.

AMD Zen 2 Frequency and IPC Higher Than Expected On Early Engineering Samples, Possible Preview Tomorrow at Next Horizon Event

Tomorrow, AMD is going to talk a lot about their 7nm products which includes both CPUs and GPUs. While GPU talk would be mostly centered around Vega 20 with a possible look at AMD's NAVI GPU which is aimed for launch sometime in 2019, the CPU talk would go around the AMD ZEN 2 CPU architecture. The event will start at 12 AM (Eastern Time) on 6th November, 2018.

AMD's Zen 2 architecture has long been in the works. AMD's design team started working on Zen 2 right after the finished working on the first Zen architecture. We know that refinements were made to the original architecture and we got the new Zen+ design but the majority of the team was then working on completing the design for Zen 2. In February of this year, it was reported that AMD had finished designing the chip architecture and would be available for sampling later this year with a range of products available starting 2019.

In the server market, we will continue to work closely with major cloud vendors and OEMs to ramp their first generation EPYC-based systems while also completing key development milestones on our next generation Zen 2 based server platforms. Our Zen 2 design is now complete and we will be sampling to our customers later this year.

Dr.LisaSu at AMD

From the above quote, you can tell that the priority market for Zen 2 as previously disclosed, is the corporate sector. AMD is aiming servers first with Zen 2 and they want to really to push their new chip architecture against Intel's Xeon platform which has been taking a major hit since EPYC made an entrance to the server market. The other products that we will see based around the 7nm Zen 2 architecture would be Ryzen and Ryzen Threadripper CPUs. These are the consumer mainstream and high-performance desktop CPU segments which have also been a tremendous uplift for AMD in recent years.

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