According to a latest report, AMD engineers had a lot of freedom with the Zen micro-architecture, which is shaping up to be AMD's most important project in a long time.

In an interview for MyStatesman, Suzanne Plummer, Director of Design Engineering at AMD, said that engineers had total freedom to build a processor from scratch and do the best they can do. She added that Zen micro-architecture is a multi-year project with a really large team which is working hard and should deliver huge improvement in performance and power consumption compared to the previous generation.

AMD has a lot riding on Zen architecture that should be very competitive as it promises up to 40 percent performance improvement compared to the existing architecture.

Earlier this month, AMD announced that Jim Keller, a well known CPU engineer which was behind the development of Zen micro-architecture, is leaving AMD and it is widely believed that he has completed the work on the chip.

The first CPU based on Zen micro-architecture is code-named Summit Ridge and is expected on the market in October next year. We are talking about high-end desktop and server design which should put AMD back on the map, at least when it comes to CPUs.

If the chip fails, AMD will certainly be in big trouble and recent rumors of acquisition might become the only option for the company.





Source: Kitguru.net.