APRIL 2020 PCWorld 13“We want our customers to love that
experience, from the time they open up the box
to the lifetime of that experience,” Bergman said.
Bergman said that AMD has already secured
more than 70 designs in the commercial PC
space, and that’s before Ryzen Mobile or the
related Ryzen Mobile Pro debuted. “We’re
expecting a lot more,”
he said.
In a surprise, Bergman
showed off a slide
indicating that 4th- gen
Ryzen chips would begin to
ship before the end of
2020, just a few months
after the expected ship
date of 3rd-gen mobile
Ryzen parts. (PCWorld
asked for more specifics
about which
4th- generation
products would
ship first, but AMD
did not comment
further.) That’s not
all: AMD will ship
the next-gen
RDNA 2 cards
before the end of
the year, “with
uncompromised
4K performance,”
Bergman said.
These will be
the first cards with hardware based ray tracing
and variable-rate shading, he added.
Granted, AMD is revealing scant detail
about its Zen 2/RDNA 2 cards, its next-gen
fourth-gen Ryzen processor, or anything else.
But we know they’re coming, and AMD will fill
in the blanks as we get closer.AMD’s Zen architecture road map, through 2022. Zen forms the foundation of the
Ryzen processors. Note that we’ll be seeing Zen 3 chips by the end of the year.
AMD’s winning designs in GPU add-in cards, too.