AMD teases next-generation EPYC Genoa and Bergamo CPUs

AMD on track to deliver on its EPYC roadmap

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AMDhas revealed its fourth-generation EPYCserverCPUs are on track to launch later this year as planned, despite supply chain disruptions.

Speaking on an earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su said the company feels “very good” about its position and has already begun sampling the new EPYC chips (codenamed Genoa) with customers.

Su also confirmed that AMD’s BergamoCPUs, a cloud-optimized offshoot based on slightly different architecture, will follow in 2023.

Next-generation AMD EPYC

“Demand for our product is very strong, and we look forward to another year of significant growth and share gains as we ramp our current products and launch our next wave of Zen 4 CPUs. We have also made significant investments to secure the capacity needed to support our growth in 2022 and beyond,” said Su.

AMD unveiled thelatest roadmapfor its fourth-generation EPYC chips back in November, promising a massive performance uplift across a broad range of workloads, from enterprise to HPC andcloud.

The top-tier Genoa SKUs will have up to 96 Zen 4 cores, and support next generation DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 memory and I/O technologies. Su says Genoa will offer 2x the density, 2x the power efficiency and 1.2x the performance available with current-generation EPYC CPUs, courtesy of TSMC’s 5nm process.

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Meanwhile, the most powerful Bergamo chips will feature a whopping 128 cores based on the slightly different Zen 4c architecture, built specifically for cloud workloads that benefit from maximum thread density. AMD says these chips will deliver “breakthrough performance and power efficiency”.

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AlthoughIntelXeon still rules the roost, AMD has made rapid gains in recent years and currently holds roughly 16% of the server market, courtesy of its superior core count. With Genoa and Bergamo, the company will hope to carry this momentum forward, capitalizing onsetbacks at Intel.

“When introduced, we expect Genoa will be the world’s highest performance processor for general purpose computing,” said Su.

ViaThe Register

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