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AMD manages high yields on Ryzen

by on23 May 2017


More than 80 per cent


The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn which claims that AMD’s 14nm manufacturing process has a yield of 80 percent.

AMD is knocking out Ryzen CPUs so effectively that a decrease in ASPs is likely to follow

The information comes from an Italian website Bitsandchips which has not named its source. However he/she told them that 80 percent of CPUs are produced with all eight cores fully functional.

The high yield of the Ryzen CPUs means that AMD can sell its EPYC (formerly known as Naples) datacentre processors (based on Ryzen) at a low cost.

Bitsandchips says that Dropbox is interested, quoting VP of infrastructure Akhil Gupta: "The combination of core performance, memory bandwidth, and I/O support make EPYC a unique offering. We look forward to continuing to evaluate EPYC as an option for our infrastructure."

This also means that coupled with AMD’s extensive Wafer Supply Agreement which was amended to act as an insurance against foundry disaster, the company is doing well as far as fabrication is concerned.

The magazine also said that Dropbox was rather interested in Naples and was evaluating AMD EPYC CPUs in-house.Akhil Gupta, vice president of infrastructure at Dropbox said that he was impressed with the initial performance we see across workloads in a single-socket configurations.

"The combination of core performance, memory bandwidth, and I / O support EPYC make a unique offering. We look forward to continuing to evaluate EPYC as an option for our infrastructure."

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