AMD Zen rumors have been highly talked about online, especially that it is being speculated that an in-depth or full specs revelation of the AMD's processor will likely happen during CES 2017. This overall hype and development of the Sunnyvale-based semiconductor company is considered as a testament of survival and challenge against leading competitor, Intel.
Over the past months, there have been many discussions about a great leap that AMD will have to do in order to sustain or boost their presence in the market. With the stable market performance of Intel, the challenger would like to present to the market another Product Architecture, hoping to right the previous wrong of Bulldozer and SeaMicro.
As of the moment, fans are expecting the full specs revelation of AMD Zen, which is dubbed as the next generation processor of AMD. Rounding up the rumors, it has been prominent talk that Zen series will be priced around $250 up to $300. As per Wccf tech, the Zen based chip will likely feature 8 cores and 16 threads, in contrast to the 6 cores and 12 threads being offered by Intel.
And for the Summit Ridge processor, a variant of Zen CPU, it has been reported that AMD has optimized clock speeds for Summit Ridge chips around 3.15-3.30 GHz base and 3.5 GHz boost on FinFET process. While all of these discussions and speculations have not been conclusively confirmed, gamers and tech-savvy are expecting more during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2017, especially that together with Zen launching, Intel's Kaby Lake desktop processors will also be launched, according to Wccftech.
The introduction of AMD's next generation processors has been interpreted by tech experts as the company's move to boost their ailing presence. Although they cannot fully compete on the high-end product aspect, Seeking Alpha sees this Zen production as the company's way to compete solely on price. And this might be a great rebound for the company, especially after they gambled and relatively failed on Bulldozer processors and SeaMicro as the report pointed out.