[News] AMD's Pinnacle Ridge Zen+ 12 nm CPUs to Launch on February 2018

[StyM]

https://www.techpowerup.com/237371/a...-february-2018

A recent AMD roadmap leak showed the company's "tick", process-improved plans for 2018's Zen+, as well as its painter-imbued aspirations with Zen 2 in 2019. Now, there's some new info posted by DigiTimes that's being sourced straight from motherboard makers that points to the company's Pinnacle Ridge launch being set sometime in February 2018.

This information seems to have been delivered to the motherboard makers straight from AMD itself, as a heads-up for when they should be expecting to ramp up production of next-generation chipsets. Sources report that AMD will follow their Summit Ridge, Ryzen launch, with the initial release of Pinnacle 7 in February, followed by the mid-range Pinnacle 5 and entry-level Pinnacle 3 processors in March 2018. DigiTimes also reports that AMD is expecting to see its share of the desktop CPU market return to at least 30% in the first half of 2018 which, coeteris paribus, is more of a simple mathematical progression than clarvoyance.

[FlanK3r]

Where did they found info about February?

[AliG]

Does Zen+ also include CPU optimizations? As much as everyone wants less power and higher clocks, I think AMD said they knew how to get a quick edge case fixes when Ryzen launched.

[madcho]

less power is better. Today's performances are more or less ok for most of any apps.

Anyway, iddle power is really important ... most of your cpu work is broswing on internet that needs more ram than cpu compute ...

[iddqd]

Does Zen+ also include CPU optimizations? As much as everyone wants less power and higher clocks, I think AMD said they knew how to get a quick edge case fixes when Ryzen launched.

It's confusing which one is which now. Early on, they used to refer to the architectures as Zen, Zen+ and Zen++. Now it seems like Zen+ is a respin of Zen on a new process, and either Zen 2 or Zen++ (???) is the improved architecture.

[vario]

It's confusing which one is which now. Early on, they used to refer to the architectures as Zen, Zen+ and Zen++. Now it seems like Zen+ is a respin of Zen on a new process, and either Zen 2 or Zen++ (???) is the improved architecture.

Zen+ is summit ridge on 12nm, and maybe some fixes but no real ipc gains.At least that was always my understanding.
But, it should bring higher clocks, and thats mostly what zen needs right now (well the second thing being faster memory support and or IF speeds).
If they get another few hundred mhz, that should be fine for another year.But this time, amd needs to constantly push.
And if by 2019 we will have 12/10 core R7 with 4,5ghz clocks and some ipc improvement. They should be golden and i will retire x99 :-) .