EPYC evokes a massive interest
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Tuesday, 20 June 2017 22:24

EPYC evokes a massive interest


Naples destroys Broadwell E5 2699A

AMD has launched its most exciting product in over a decade and chose an appropriate name  - EPYC. We do know that you love Ryzen and Radeon too much, but EPYC is the single most important product generation from the house of AMD. It is, without a doubt, a big disruptive product on the cloud/server market.

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 dual socket Naples compares to Intel’s E5 2699A V4
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Outspecing and outperforming $5000 CPU

AMD has given details of Naples and talked about its support at the Open Compute conference and it also shared a few performance numbers of a dual socket Naples with 64 core and 128 threes versus Intel’s latest dual socket Xeon E5-2699A.

Naples 32 core server chip announced
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Thursday, 09 March 2017 09:39

Naples 32 core server chip announced


As Fudzilla reported last year 

This is one of these "we told you so" moments, as we've already written many details about AMD 32 core Naples server – a data center processor. 

AMD confirms Naples Zen server for Q2
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Thursday, 15 December 2016 11:52

AMD confirms Naples Zen server for Q2


2H 2017 Raven Ridge for notebooks

AMD’s CEO Lisa Su said that Summit Ridge, the processor that we will know as Ryzen, will arrive in Q1 2017 and she mentioned that Naples Zen for server will appear in Q2 and Raven Ridge, Zen APU will deliver in the second half of 2017.

AMD teases Zen-based Naples processor
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Monday, 05 September 2016 11:11

AMD teases Zen-based Naples processor


New benchmarks released

AMD is continuing to build up expectations for its new Zen-based Naples proccessor.

Final version Zen based 32 core Naples will arrive in Q2 2017
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Engineering samples are out already

AMD has revealed a heap of details about its 32-core Zen based product - codenamed Naples - and we have a few things to add. 

Zen gets analysts and Fudzilla excited
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Friday, 19 August 2016 11:22

Zen gets analysts and Fudzilla excited


Server and notebook deeper in 2017

AMD has showed off some clock and performance details about upcoming desktop Zen and some of you might remember that back in June at Computex, Fudzilla said that if the Zen boots windows it will boost AMD’s share too

AMD’s CEO showcases 8 and 32 core Zen
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Thursday, 18 August 2016 13:55

AMD’s CEO showcases 8 and 32 core Zen


Summit ridge and Naples

Fudzilla exclusively wrote about the 32 core Zen codenamed Naples some two months ago in quite detail and people called us crazy. Now it turns out we were right on the money.

AMD 2017 Opteron has three sockets
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Wednesday, 20 July 2016 18:52

AMD 2017 Opteron has three sockets


Exclusive: 4, 8, 12, 16, 24 and 32 core versions

Zen-based Opteron processors should appear by mid-2017 and our deep throats have revealed that there will be three different sockets. Not only that, the entry level Zen based processors will come in four or eight Zen core configurations and they will use the  SP4r2 BGA socket. AMD has been developing them under the Snowy Owl codename.