Lisa Su, the Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has confirmed in a Q1 2018 Earnings call that the company will be sampling the 7nm chips, beginning this year, as quoted.

We have a 7nm GPU based on Vega that we’ll sample later this year. And then, obviously, we have a number of products that are planned for 2019 as well,” ... That will be in production in 2019, and we do believe that the adoption rate of the second-generation could potentially be higher than the adoption rate of the first-generation, mostly because customers will be more familiar with our systems and our products.

This follows last year's successful financial year for the company, and the company plans to attain ambitious goals with this product. We can expect this new adaption to release some time in 2019. Intel is yet aiming to release its 10nm Cannon Lake processors in a similar time frame.

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[osaka35]

Here's hoping 7nm finds its way to their GPUs as well. I'll be saving up for the upgrade.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

That's one hell of a leap down from 10nm, let alone 14nm

 

[DKB]

Damn, half? That's nuts.

 

[VitaType]

Here's hoping 7nm finds its way to their GPUs as well. I'll be saving up for the upgrade.

As long as Nvidia is bullying everyone including engine devs to use there graphics cards there isn't really any reason to use AMDs. There CPUs are competitive, but there graphic cards aren't really worth it atm.
Maybe they will manage to catch-up in the future, but today Vega is no threat for Nvidia and I don't see why anyone should buy an AMD graphics card nowdays and I don't think these 7nm change will make any difference for PC gamers in that regard. Sadly.

 

[osaka35]

As long as Nvidia is bullying everyone including engine devs to use there graphics cards there isn't really any reason to use AMDs. There CPUs are competitive, but there graphic cards aren't really worth it atm.
Maybe they will manage to catch-up in the future, but today Vega is no threat for Nvidia and I don't see why anyone should buy an AMD graphics card nowdays.

Mainly to not support the giant quivering dickish behaviour of Nvidia and those of us with freesync monitors. And all those people who bought AMD graphics for bit-mining might want to play games on them from time to time. Nvidia is in the lead for now, but competition would be lovely and might put Nvidia in its place a bit.

But in all honesty, devs will go with the strongest and easiest. Nvidia will bully them, but AMD should make enough headway to overcome this. And AMD tends to mature far better than Nvidia, so there's that. Probably wishful thinking, but that's where we're at X'D

 

[DinohScene]

That indeed is a hell of a shrinkage.

 

[gnmmarechal]

That's... small. Wew.

 

[dAVID_]

For comparison, an atom is about 0.1 to 0.5 nm.
So average is 0.3 nm.
This means that this transistor is about 28 atoms long.....



How far have we come?

 

[Bladexdsl]

still won't beat the evga gtx 1080 ti FTW3

 

[TotalInsanity4]

For comparison, an atom is about 0.1 to 0.5 nm.
So average is 0.3 nm.
This means that this transistor is about 28 atoms long.....



How far have we come?

Next stop: quantum computing

 

[DeadlyFoez]

How far have we come?

...about 28 atoms long.....

 

[zoogie]

The race to the magical 40TFLOPs is within reach....

 

[leon315]

Okay, when comes the time to replace my gtx1070, I know what to do....

 

[Viri]

Mainly to not support the giant quivering dickish behaviour of Nvidia and those of us with freesync monitors. And all those people who bought AMD graphics for bit-mining might want to play games on them from time to time. Nvidia is in the lead for now, but competition would be lovely and might put Nvidia in its place a bit.

But in all honesty, devs will go with the strongest and easiest. Nvidia will bully them, but AMD should make enough headway to overcome this. And AMD tends to mature far better than Nvidia, so there's that. Probably wishful thinking, but that's where we're at X'D

Makes me wish we had more comp in the desktop cpu and gpu market. I wish Samsung started making desktop cpu and gpus, and that Intel made an actual desktop GPU. I don't count onboard as an actual gpu.

 

[Foxi4]

This is pretty great news for AMD as Intel is still struggling to manufacture 10nm efficiently and they've postponed their release, so the next series is still going to be made with a larger node. At this rate we're looking at another P4 versus Athlon period where it's AMD who's on the top of the world, even with lower per core performance they'll have double the space for transistors on the die. Zen 2 may very well overtake i7 in the same series brackets in terms of performance, which effectively has never happened before. Great job, AMD!

 

[Pluupy]

One thing I like about using AMD is having the same driver for cpu and gpu. Using Phenom II x840 cpu and Radeon HD 7870. I would like to do something similar again in the future.

I like the improvrments and efficiency of intel and nvidia, but amd is always super solid.

 

[netovsk]

Mainly to not support the giant quivering dickish behaviour of Nvidia and those of us with freesync monitors. And all those people who bought AMD graphics for bit-mining might want to play games on them from time to time. Nvidia is in the lead for now, but competition would be lovely and might put Nvidia in its place a bit.

But in all honesty, devs will go with the strongest and easiest. Nvidia will bully them, but AMD should make enough headway to overcome this. And AMD tends to mature far better than Nvidia, so there's that. Probably wishful thinking, but that's where we're at X'D

It's a bit funny to see people championing AMD as if they were the good guys when it has become pretty obvious nowdays that they make do with products similarly priced and with similar performance of their current competitors to maximize their profit. The times of K7/Athlon/Phenom are long over some suit there realized there was no point in agressively pricing your products when you're the sole competitor. They didn't even do anything significant to stop the bit-mining craze.

There are no good guys in this business.

 

[orangy57]

I guess this is going to make my fx-8370 look ancient

 

[Foxi4]

It's a bit funny to see people championing AMD as if they were the good guys when it has become pretty obvious nowdays that they make do with products similarly priced and with similar performance of their current competitors to maximize their profit. The times of K7/Athlon/Phenom are long over some suit there realized there was no point in agressively pricing your products when you're the sole competitor. They didn't even do anything significant to stop the bit-mining craze.

There are no good guys in this business.

Total nonsense. The Ryzen line of processors is competitively priced, you can get the same or higher number of cores/threads, similar or higher clock and lower TDP for a significantly lower price by going AMD. Intel only has a foothold in the highest tier of performance, but those high-end processors are prohibitively expensive for the average user.