How AMD Zen Almost Didn't Make It | Stories of Ryzen, ft. Unreleased CPUs

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This didn’t make the final cut for our upcoming, in-depth lab tour of AMD’s testing & engineering campus in Austin, Texas, but the stories told (and the unreleased products shown) were too interesting to cut entirely — so we branched out the discussion. This covers some of AMD Zen’s history from a side conversation with Amit Mehra and Bill Alverson at AMD, discussing the many challenges of initial bring-up, products that get pitched and some that don’t make it to market, and how Zen almost didn’t make the original showing in 2016. AMD’s Ryzen CPUs launched to the public in 2017, but this content looks at the behind-the-scenes of what led up to that launch.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – How Zen Almost Didn’t Make It
02:20 – The History of Zen
04:17 – ALL HANDS ON DECK
07:43 – Betting the Company
10:57 – The Only One in the World
11:32 – Raven Prototype Laser Problems
13:09 – How X3D Came to Be 16-Core X3D
15:27 – Fusing Explained
16:38 – Unreleased Threadripper
17:18 – Bill Shows Unreleased X3D Performance
19:22 – How an Idea Gets Produced
21:52 – Conclusion for Now

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