AMD is working ona family of APUs code named "Gray Hawk" to debut in 2019 on Globalfoundries' recently announced 7nm FinFET process. This next generation family of high performance Accelerated Processing Units will feature up to four Zen+ cores and eight threads with a thermal and power footprint as low as 10 watts. Powering the graphics side of these chips will be an integrated "Navi" GPU with substantial performance and powerefficiencyadvancements.

AMD Gray Hawk 7nm APUs With Zen+ Cores Launching In 2019 - Feature 4 Cores, 8 Threads And Power As Low As 10W

"Gray Hawk" will succeed AMD's "Raven Ridge" family of 14nm APUs which are scheduled to land some time inmid 2017. APUs are quite versatile and Gray Hawk will be the most versatile of them all. The new family of chips is expected to go intoeverything from desktops, notebooks, arcade gaming systems, embedded devices, automation, retail signage to medical imaging and industrial control systems."Gray Hawk" APUs will reportedly debut alongside AMD's 48 Core, 96 thread "Starship" behemoth some time in 2019.

Starship is aCPU only chip with twelve times the x86grunt of Gray Hawk. Powered by a small army of Zen+ cores and copious amounts of cache, "Starship" is aimed at a completely different set of markets than Gray Hawk. It's expected to be quite the disruptive product in the data center and high performance computing arenas. Starship will be succeeding"Naples". AMD's32 core, 64 thread server chip that's set to launchin the second half of 2017.

The foundation of all of these will be Globalfoundries' upcoming 7nm.The company is pouring several billion dollars into itsFab 8 in Saratoga, New York to bring the process up to speed. Which is expected to enter risk production within the next couple of years thanks to extensive re-use of existing 14nm FinFET tools andtechniques.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES CEO Sanjay Jha :

"The industry is converging on 7nm FinFET as the next long-lived node, which represents a unique opportunity for GLOBALFOUNDRIES to compete at the leading edge. We are well positioned to deliver a differentiated 7nm FinFET technology by tapping our years of experience manufacturing high-performance chips, the talent and know-how of our former IBM Microelectronics colleagues and the world-class R&D pipeline from our research alliance. No other foundry can match this legacy of manufacturing high-performance chips."

Dr. Lisa Su, president and CEO, AMD :

“Leading-edge technologies like GLOBALFOUNDRIES 7nm FinFET are an important part of how we deliver our long-term roadmap of computing and graphics products that are capable of powering the next generation of computing experiences,” said . “We look forward to continuing our close collaboration with GLOBALFOUNDRIES as they extend the solid execution and technology foundation they are building at 14nm to deploy high-performance, low-power 7nm technology in the coming years.”

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