AMD Looks to Keep Performance, Efficiency Gains Momentum With Zen 4, RDNA 3, and Commitment to Threadripper

[DeathtoGnomes]

Except Apple is on 5nm now. 5950x and 5900x are simply paper launches based on what Newegg and B&H reported.

Newegg has no credibility with me, B&H only has a smidgen more, all Etailers are out for themselves and will embellish to suit their bottom line. The bot shenanigans do not help, but I believe AMD is intentionally holding back those two chips.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

The leading edge node for FinFETs are High Performance first, and low power really late.
N12e => https://n12e.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/technology/N12e.htm
Didn't come out till this year, 2020.

FinFETs are always high performance first, and low power last. Hence, the high current and high mobility support and then trying to control it at later node revisions.

TSMC N5 is HP, they have yet to announce the -e suffix version of it so, thus LP is no where to be seen.

So to back that up why N12e I can't find anything and annandtech has articles on it. , afaik it's Lp, LP+ HP was for 14nm has been for 7nm regardless of transistor type , yes later revisions use less power but they're the higher clocking part's too see AMD, INTel et Al higher clocks each revision of process methodology.

 

[pjl321]

That AMD guy definitely convinced me to wait!!

 

[Mouth of Sauron]

50% of the credit should be given to TSMC for keeping the silicon manufacturing alive and improving.

Yes, they invested quite much of time and resources in cooperation with TSMC. The cooperation was probably beneficial to both (I mean from technology point of view, beside the obvious).

Intel is currently in the same position as AMD once, 'real men have fabs' - but what if those fabs fail to achieve?

It's very, very far from 'game over' for Intel, but they need to suffer several years for not upgrading architecture (AMD suffered from making a truly bad one) and having foundries problems - they used to be best in the world... Both Intel problems can be solved, and they can become (I'm not from the USA, but will avoid using 'great again' ) a magnificent inventor of revolutionary products and solutions, instead a lazy cash-cow with shady business practices.

But true, TSMC is greatly responsible for current AMD successes...