AMD 'Ryzen' Zen Architecture: Competitive Threat to Intel In The Server Chips Market
AMD's successful launch of the Ryzen line of consumer processors could mean trouble to their close rival, Intel. The company's Zen architecture, (with consumer name 'Ryzen'), have been optimistically received by the tech market globally. How tight is the competition between the two microprocessor tech giants in this niche? What attributes does this Zen architecture have to bump off Intel in this market? Let us find out more details here.
As per Madison, Intel has been enjoying a near-monopoly of 99% market share in their server chip industry for the past few recent years. However, the company is having alarm bells now that the data center growth might slow down in view of AMD's return to competition as it launches its Zen architecture-built server chip named "Naples". As it released Ryzen, the PC version of Zen, the company has reached its significantly close performance gap with Intel, especially with their desktop version's bountiful cores and reasonably competitive price.
Reports from PC Gamer suggest that the Zen architecture looks a lot like Intel's core architecture. AMD is now using 4-core/8-thread Symmetric Multi-Threading (SMT module) building block. It has the ability to disable the support for SMT in order that the Ryzen CPUs (at minimum) may be 4-core/4-thread parts. In addition to this, Zen has managed to provide an improved 'perceptron' branch prediction algorithm which definitely helps boost performance.
Ryzen has a significantly faster processor even if the Zen's highest clock speed drops from 4.3GHz to 3.8GHz. It has a baseline of 3.4GHz at a minimum, and turbo speeds likely being at least 300MHz higher. It has IPC excavator cores which are about 40 percent better. Hence, the amalgamation of the most recent higher performance architecture and new manufacturing process are the key selling points of the AMD's latest technology. Ryzen should put some fear into Intel's server chip empire with these developments, as per reports from PC Gamer.