How fucked is AMD if Zen is a big flop? I can't possibly

>>55676719
>How fucked is AMD if Zen is a big flop?
AMD is in every next-gen gaming console, hardware which sells far more units than PCs for any given year.

So, probably Not At All Fucked.

>>55676745
Yeah, they're fine. The OP really is low quality bait so that others can look ITT.

Also, Zen rumors
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/ams-zen-engineering-sample-specs-leaked.html

Incredibly fucked. If enterprises don't like Zen, AMD is as good as dead.

>>55676745
Consoles have low profit margins. AMD is targeting enterprise first because that is where the money is.

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>>55676818
> 4 variants of ES Zen are available at the moment:
> AM4 8 cores with 95W TDP
> AM4 4 cores with 65W TDP
> SP3 24 cores with 150W TDP
> SP3 32 cores with 180W TDP

>8 core
>A0 revision
>double of 2MB of L2, 8MB of L3
>550MHz idle for 2.5W-5W of idle power
>clocked at 2.8GHz with 3.2GHz boost
It needs to have at least Haswell IPC, higher clocks as revisions pass, and starting at $500 for them to sell a shitload of them. Intel went full retard with Broadwell-E and they need a wakeup call.

Also,
>mfw they might have a server CPU with 32 cores

>>55676829
Consoles have negative profit margins for the company that sells them, not the manufacturer/supplier.

http://www.google.com/finance?cid=327

read the financial tab.

>>55677199
>tfw not buying stock at 1.6/share
Just end me.

>>55676987
>MOAR COARS
Maybe Bulldozer really didn't teach them anything

>>55677302
Faildozer didn't even have real cores but some kind of HT abortion. Also IPC lower than phenom 2 lmao

>>55677302
Bulldozer was an abomination since it even lost to previous generation Phenoms on single threaded tasks. The MOAR CORES meme has always been silly, since Intel also releases chips with more cores on them. To add, Zen's Summit Ridge also has a 4 core option.