AMD’s 7nm manufacturing crunch could explain Threadripper’s 2019 vanishing act
AMD has removed 3rd Gen Threadripper HEDT processors from its 2019 roadmap. While the company had previously touted its core-happy CPUs sometime in late 2019, following AMD Ryzen 3000, the latest investor presentation rids all sign of the HEDT processors from its yearly roadmap.
AMD will release its Ryzen 3000 CPUs for desktop clients (us gamers) over at Computex towards the end of the month. These processors were originally expected to precede Threadripper later in the year, which would utilise the same Zen 2 architecture and chiplet design, offering up increased core counts and multithreaded workstation chops. But all evidence of a 3rd Gen Threadripper release later this year has since been scrubbed from the company’s plans - and the change looks to have been intentional.
The reasoning behind the delay - if you can call it such, given the processors weren’t officially announced - is not yet known. But if we open the doors to a little conjecture, the move could be down to 7nm manufacturing constraints. AMD is opting for TSMC’s 7nm process node across its upcoming product stack. That includes almost all of its CPU silicon - barring GlobalFoundries 14nm I/O chiplet - and its AMD Navi GPUs.
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