In a nutshell: Team Red revealed information technology has a couple of heavy-duty processors coming out over the next couple of years. One has 96 cores targeted toward high-end general-purpose workstations. The other is a 128-core monster for use in information centers running deject-based applications. Both are based on TSMC's 5nm procedure.

During its Accelerated Information Center keynote on Monday, AMD unveiled the roadmap for its upcoming fourth-generation Epyc silicon. AMD chief Lisa Su notes the two HPC processors are aimed at enterprise and data center applications. Reuters notes that Meta (Facebook) just joined long-fourth dimension AMD partners Microsoft (Azure), Amazon (AWS), and Alphabet (Google Cloud) and will be among the kickoff companies to use the fries.

The new CPUs should offering twice the density and ability efficiency while supplying 1.25 times or more functioning.

The starting time flake is codenamed "Genoa." Designed for heavy-duty, general-purpose calculating, Genoa features 96 Zen 4 cores thanks to TSMC'due south 5nm procedure and comes with DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 back up. When appear in 2022, Genoa silicon was expected to land quondam this year simply was delayed past the on-going global supply-concatenation issues. Su said Genoa should first arriving in 2022. She did non have a firmer launch date, but since AMD has already sent out samples, it should probably exist sooner in the year than afterwards.

The second chipset, codenamed "Bergamo," is designed with cloud-based information centers in mind. The silicon is still built on the same 5nm process, but AMD has optimized it for cloud-native computing. Every bit such, information technology has designated the architecture every bit Zen 4c. At its essence, Zen 4c is uniform and functionally the same as its cousin but optimizes enshroud hierarchy to permit a higher core/thread density.

Bergamo packs a whopping 128 Zen 4c cores on a single CPU. Like Genoa, information technology will too back up DDR5 and PCIe 5.0, CXL i.1, RAS, and Infinity Guard security. Information technology will also be socket compatible (SP5) with Genoa. However, it should offer "breakthrough performance per socket." Su said Bergamo silicon should commencement shipping in the first half of 2023.

Squad Red likewise unveiled its third-generation Milan-X server CPUs, which will sport up to 768MB of L3 cache. We should run across those hitting the marketplace in Q1 2022.