AMD management at the slightest opportunity mentions that the market success of processors with Zen architecture was the result of decisions made several years ago. Jim Keller, who has a serious track record, had a hand in creating this architecture, but the first generation Ryzen processors were brought to readiness without his help, since by that time he worked at Tesla, and then moved to Intel at the invitation of his longtime friend of Raja Koduri.
If the story about the involvement of the βrock star among engineersβ Keller in the creation of AMD Zen was actively replicated by the media, then other names of the developers of this architecture remained in the shadows. However, recently the site posted a snapshot of the LinkedIn page of David Suggs (David Suggs), who had the imprudence to inform users of this social network about his involvement in the development of AMD Zen 2 and Zen 5 processor architectures. As part of these projects, David has served as the lead architect for these projects.
Now access to the LinkedIn page of this AMD employee is closed, but in the wake of WCCFTech revelations, we can establish that David has been working at AMD since April 2005, and he received his education and improved his qualifications at the University of Texas, in Austin, where AMD has a large representative office . At industry events this year, AMD has regularly announced that it has already begun development of the Zen 4 architecture, so the start of work on Zen 5 should not be a surprise to those who are familiar with the specifics of such activities.
Intel and AMD typically employ different teams of people to develop successive architectures in parallel. The "chess order" of design activities allows you to accelerate the development of new processors. In this sense, it is quite natural that the team of specialists who have completed work on Zen 2 can already start developing Zen 5, while their colleagues are engaged in Zen 3 and Zen 4 architectures at this time. Assuming that Zen 4 processors will be released in 2021, and TSMC will release them on 5nm technology, then Zen 5 architecture carriers will not appear until 2022. Representatives of TSMC have repeatedly repeated that almost all customers from the 7nm process technology will switch to the 5nm process technology in its performance, therefore, the succession of contractors in the context of the GlobalFoundries demarche is quite obvious. However, nothing prevents AMD at the appropriate stage from involving Samsung in the production of processors, which does not refuse to storm the "new depths of lithography".
Source: 3dnews.ru