It appears that AMD might have released a 14nm Summit Ridge CPU die at its 2016 Annual Shareholders Meeting website, showing eight Zen-based CPU cores in its full glory.

According to a report coming from SemiAccurate site, the die shot shows eight CPU cores based on Zen CPU architecture and features a dual-channel DDR4 memory controller, 512KB of L2 cache per core and 16MB of L3 cache that has shared between two blocks, each with four CPU cores.

Just as the upcoming Bristol Ridge APU, the Summit Ridge will integrate the southbridge in the CPU die. It also brings a completely new inter-socket interconnect, called the Global Memory Interconnect (GMI). The GMI provides 100GB/s path between two sockets and Summit Ridge will feature two GMI ports thus providing 16 threads for OS.

A different blog site also estimated what the chip will look, showing all the components in the die, including all eight Zen CPU cores.

AMD has put a lot of faith in its Zen CPU architecture so hopefully it will be as good as advertised as it will finally give Intel some competition in the CPU market. The Summit Ridge is expected to launch in Q4 this year.







Source: via Techpowerup.com.