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Not to mention AMD has a very clear Roadmap for Zen IPC as well as node. Compared to Intel which has been delay after delay or rename. There will be Zen+ next year on 7nm, and 7nm+ in 2019. Not sure if they are the same on Server, but they are suppose to fit in the same socket on Desktop.

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Good point, it looks like they have a decent path forward and hopefully they take good advantage of the new nodes and the available room for refining the uarch.

Socket compatibility would be wise, I hope at least the Zen+

I'm hoping they soon get back to competing aggressively at high-end HPC too, perhaps they could spend some area on Zen+ on better FP SIMD, or even flexible width SIMD (though the latter would be more realistic on the 7nm successor).

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