This year only deliveries to important partners are to be made, in large quantities in the first quarter 2021. Zen 3 CPUs are coming first for supercomputers.

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AMD will be the server offshoot of Zen 3 – Epyc 7003 alias Milan – no longer this Introduce year. The delivery of the first processors to partners is said to have already started, but AMD only sells larger quantities from the beginning 2021. The chip manufacturer has scheduled the presentation for the first quarter 2021 – only then is with the specifications and reliable performance data.

So far AMD only presented desktop processors with Zen 3 architecture: The Ryzen – 5000 -CPUs (code name Vermeer) especially increase the single-threaded performance. The server versions with up to 64 should be like the 10 – Kerner Ryzen 9 5950 X benefit less from the improvements, since the thermal design power (TDP) is limited with the high core numbers. After all, all efficiency improvements come from the architecture – chip contract manufacturers continue to produce the CPU chiplets with 7 nanometer technology.

Chip shortage AMD apparently cannot keep up with the production of Zen-3 chip sets. The first four models Ryzen 9 7002 X, Ryzen 9 5900 X, Ryzen 7 5800 X and Ryzen 5 5600 X are hardly available worldwide. Delivery contracts with server partners are likely to have priority at the moment – among other things, the first parts of the mother-of-pearl supercomputer are to be included this year with Zen-3-Epycs go online. As a result, AMD will or can only deliver larger quantities to smaller server manufacturers from 2021 .

Most recently, Intel’s first 10 – nm server generation Ice Lake-SP, which competes with AMD’s Epyc 7002 (Rome) and Epyc 7003 (Milan) actually until the end 2020 should appear. According to the Taiwanese website Digitimes Intel is supposed to introduce the to the beginning 2021. (mma)