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AMD rumored to launch Zen CPUs and AM4 Platform Motherboards in March 2016

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The excitement over AMD’s upcoming Zen architecture has been quite on the high lately, judging on the improvements in performance and TDP optimization which will definitely put their processor line up back in the market. According to the latest rumors, AMD is preparing to release it sooner than previously reported, which is this upcoming March 2016.

   

Rumor states that AMD would release the new flagship AM4 platform in March, being earlier than the previous release schedule of Q4 2016. Zen CPU would run on the AM4 platform, supporting both APUs and CPUs. Pretty good news since the previous AM3+ platform only supported CPUs and you’d had to change to the FM2(+) platform to support APUs. Even better yet, the new upcoming AM4 platform will reportedly last much longer than the previous platforms, with support for future AMD processors. This is a pretty good step from AMD to improve sales on future AMD processors without users having to upgrade their motherboards together, increasing sales for the existing AM4 platform for new users of the future processors.

The support for Bristol Ridge and Summit Ridge will be present in the new AM4 platform. Summit Ridge line up will be the performance desktop processors under the FX branding on the Zen architecture. Bristol Ridge range, on the other hand, will be the mainstream/desktop mobility APU range targetted at mid-range users and entry-level performance gamers. It will be based on the Excavator architecture, with the Summit Ridge being powered by the smaller and more power efficient 14nm process housing up to 8x CPU cores while the Bristol Ridge APUs will be made on the current 28nm process as quad-core processors. Both offerings will come in at 95W with the APUs holding GCN GPU cores also.

The AM4 motherboards will be focused at powering high-performance desktop PCs with new I/O capabilities, DDR4 memory support and a broad range of updates over the aged AM3+ platform.

SOURCE: TweakTown

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