According to latest rumors the yields manufacturing AMD Ryzen processors is reaching strong values and therefore good quality. As we already know, Ryzen is manufactured using the 14nm FinFet process. This technology has been used and refined for over a year now.


High yields mean that there is less waste or in other words defective chips on a wafer. An efficient chip production also means less money wasted, which either becomes visible in quarterly reports showing higher profits or a vendor can lower prices of a particular product.

Although Zen dies definitely aren’t amongst the least complex CPU designs out there but still it appears that there well manufacturable. This already put a certain extent of faith into the upcoming AMD Threadripper processors, which are built out of two dies in an MCM (Multi Chip Module) package. On another note it seems that the Threadripper chips are on track for this summer.

According to another news, Threadripper is not a codename, but the actual brand name of AMD’s upcoming 16, 14 and 12-core CPUs. Therefore we won’t see any Ryzen 9 Series CPU. The Whitehaven platform is supposed to include support for quad-channel DDR4 memory and 44 PCI-Express lanes have been mentioned along the way. This would be enough to build absolute high-end systems with multi-GPU setups, while still having spare lanes for all the additional I/O you’d want.





Source: Guru3D