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Advanced Micro Devices has demonstrated its roadmaps for the next five years. While the company did not disclose almost any details about its future products, it is important that AMD actually has plans that can be executed.
AMD’s Junji Hayashi demonstrated a number of slides revealing the company’s roadmaps at the PC Cluster Consortium event in Osaka, Japan, reports MyNavi. The presentation confirms that the company has plans for ten years down the road. AMD will continue to develop central processing units, graphics processing units and hybrid accelerated processing units, just like today.
AMD will keep on releasing all-new graphics processing units every 1.5 – 2 years, like it does nowadays. The company will upgrade its APUs with new general purpose cores as well as graphics processing cores. Sometimes in 2018 – 2019 the company’s APUs will be so advanced that they will offer multi TFLOPS performance. The company also plans to offer APUs for high-performance computing markets.
It is interesting to note that AMD will not cease development of classic microprocessors without graphics cores. While the company did not disclose details about its chips featuring next-generation Zen and K12 cores, it did imply that they will feature a technology akin to Intel’s Hyper-Threading.
The Sunnyvale, California-based chip designer also reaffirmed plans to develop pin-to-pin compatible system-on-chips with ARM or x86 cores. As reported, AMD’s “Skybridge” accelerated processing units with ARM Cortex-A57 or Puma+ cores are designed for various consumer applications, including notebooks, tablets and 2-in-1s.
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KitGuru Says: While it is nice to see that AMD has plans for the future, it would be great to learn actual details about its forthcoming products and analyse how competitive will they be against those offered by Intel and Nvidia.
Specifically they said each core would have “many threads” which means their server chips may be running 3 or 4 threads per core while their desktop chips run 2 threads per core.
At first, I was like hmmm.. yeah.. yeah.. great….
Then I went ‘LOL’ after I saw next-gen everywhere. Basically I can also do it for the next fifteen years as well.
Cmon AMD, you won’t die by giving them name, even Nvidia did a better job with their roadmap even though they changed project from volta to pascal but at least better than ‘next gen’ that even a child can write.
They were a bit more open in the past, now they don’t even allow internal employees to see the roadmaps, it is strictly on a need to know basis. Blame it on some poor judgement on the part of some of their former employees. Can’t blame them, code names and details are not meant for people who are not part of the company. The press and the consumers don’t need to know. When the product launches if it performs the buyer makes a choice to buy it or not. If someone is doing the leaking they need to be smart about how they do it. A few have been identified and the result is what we see in terms of secrecy, still press have their moles who leak info.
AMD really need to shake up things. There are consumers out there that are demanding new products with innovations and not just rebranding. Yes there are cheaper AMD Graphics out there but Nvidia Maxwell Architecture is so efficient and powerfull like the GTX 970 that it’s worth the price for. I’m sure AMD can do better, but they need to be fast and innovative.
I think AMD still floats as a company by simply releasing unofficial rumors by saying they will release “that” and “this” at Q2,Q3 2015,2016 and another one that is truly “next generation” at 2017 H2 and so on ?? If they can’t deliver anything simply shut down the company so that people can stop wasting there money on buying AMD’s share.
you want AMD to shut down? really? you want Intel to totally monopolize the market?
And Nvidia… A market dominated by Nvidia and Intel is something I DEFINITELY do not want. Not complaining about their performance or fanboying here, I have an i5 myself. But both of their prices are already comparatively expensive and getting rid of AMD would make them skyrocket.
Nice to see that they are countinuing to develop APUs. When I get to collage, I’d really like to build a PC, thats barely bigger than a pencil case. (or just use a tablet I guess…)