AMD seems to think the best way to beat Intel is to copy it
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Increase cores

AMD CTO Mark Papermaster thinks he will level the playing field between AMD and Intel in the CPU market essentially by copying what Chipzilla is doing.

AMD CTO discusses 7nm EPYC and Vega 7nm
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Wednesday, 29 August 2018 11:22

AMD CTO discusses 7nm EPYC and Vega 7nm


Both TSMC don’t worry about GloFo

The news that GlobalFoundries is walking away from 7nm manufacturing brought a lot of uncertainty to AMD’s roadmap and Mark Papermaster the CTO of the company has just posted a blog comforting investors and assuring customers that both CPU and GPU designs at 7nm are in safe hands at TSMC.

AMD Zen 2 design is finished
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Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:00

AMD Zen 2 design is finished


CTO confirmed                           

We wanted to address something that might not get enough coverage as it deserves. A few weeks, back AMD’s CTO Mark Papermaster confirmed that that the Zen 2 design has been finished

AMD announces its Zen 2
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Tuesday, 16 May 2017 23:20

AMD announces its Zen 2


 7nm+ Zen 3 in development

AMD’s CTO has just announced the Zen 2 in 7nm and the Zen 3 being developed on 7nm or better. Both are in development right now

Intel underestimated the AMD Zen Ryzen threat
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Sources close to the matter

Ryzen 7 and now Ryzen 5 have launched and they are putting enormous pressure on Intel in the top-level market segment. After a whole decade, price/performance is definitely on AMD's side and even the upcoming Naples 32 core server part will put enormous pressure on  Intel’s cash cow in the server market. 

How Tesla copied AMD Zen strategy
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Friday, 30 December 2016 12:30

How Tesla copied AMD Zen strategy


Surfing on a non-existing car wave

It looks like AMD is on schedule to finally show all the cards about Summit Ridge, the Ryzen - Zen desktop part but we found interesting that the famous Elon Musk largely built Tesla's success on the same strategy Lisa and her team used for AMD. 

Thursday, 20 November 2014 10:58

US DoE gives AMD a $32 million

Come up with exascale please

Tuesday, 10 August 2010 11:42

Apple exec leaves in wake of Antennagate



Scapegoat anyone?