From the revelations of AMD technical director we know that the company is going to make evolutionary changes in Zen architecture on an annual basis, and the duration of the family life cycle solutions will be limited to four years. That is, following the change of constructive socket motherboard for AMD expects us only at the turn of 2020 and 2021 years, and Zen architecture until that time will progressively improve each year.
Director-General Su Lisa on the reporting quarterly conference could not avoid answering the question about the future plans of the company. She admitted that Zen processors will be at least two subsequent generations, conditionally calling them "Zen 2" and "Zen 3", although made it clear that this case can not be limited. According to the head of AMD, the company very successfully mastered not only the 14-nm process technology, and 16-nm process technology. Already underway to develop a 7-nm products, and AMD is convinced that the existing partners will be able to offer competitive conditions of transition to 7-nm technology. This is one of the factors that enable AMD products to remain competitive over the next few generations.
By the way, in the answer to another question on the reporting of quarterly conference Lisa Su said that she believes in the existence of pent-up demand in the "great game products", with which she considers Ryzen processors and graphics generation Vega. In the second half of their penetration into different price segments will allow the company to demonstrate good financial performance. She also noted that with the announcement of the company Vega get fully updated range of products, from basic to top-level.