AMD recently completed the Financial Analyst Day 2017, which featured key figures of the company, led by CEO Lisa Su, who told the public about the company's future plans, and also made some high-profile announcements.
EPYC processors are designed primarily for use in data centers. These processors, formerly known under the code name Naples, are manufactured using the same 14-nm process FinFET as desktop Ryzen, and they are based on the Zen architecture, with some minor changes. New server processors, like their desktop "brothers", will combine high performance with high energy efficiency.
AMD says its new processors will offer 45% more cores, 122% more memory bandwidth and 60% higher I / O bandwidth, compared to a competitor that AMD calls Intel Xeon E5-2699A V4. In fact, EPYC processors will offer up to 32 cores, each with two computational flows. The DDR4 memory controller has eight channels, which will provide a server with two 16-channel processor connectors and up to 32 memory slots, the total volume of which can reach 4 TB.
In fact, EPYC processors are single-chip platforms (SoC), because they have all the necessary interfaces, and they do not need a separate set of system logic to work. For communication with external devices, the processor will have 128 lines of PCI-Express 3.0. AMD also emphasizes the use of the Infinity Fabric bus for communication between processors in a system with two processor connectors, as well as support for new security systems. Related Products :
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