AMD to extend Ryzen 3000 CPU life cycle, according to report

[Shirley Dulcey]

They will probably push out a Vermeer model or two at the end of Q4 just so they can say they didn't delay Zen 3 to 2021, perhaps a low volume replacement for the 3950X. But I think Zen 3 will be delayed regardless of what AMD is saying, and Zen 2 will make up nearly all shipments for the rest of 2020. It could be a TSMC capacity issue; they have to keep a lot of their allocation in reserve for production of the processors for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.

[Shirley Dulcey]

Threadripper is kinda being deprecated though...

I don't think Threadripper is going away. It's just going to be a niche product for the workstation market, a competitor for Intel's Xeon W. There are people who need the additional RAM capacity and PCIe lanes that the platform offers, and since it's a simple adaptation of the EPYC server line it's not that much effort for AMD to make Threadripper.

[DemonAndrew]

It depends on what they do with the delay. If they put the time into pushing the 4000 series Ryzen's onto 5nm (there where supposed to ship as 7nm) then its worth it. If they use it to sit on their behinds and rake in the cash then no. I suspect they know Intel will try and come for them and they will use this time to pull a little more out of the 4000 series but who knows? I do know AMD have been the underdog for a while so I don't see them becoming complacent just yet.

Yeah, I hope they use the time to improve the 4000 series instead of letting it rot. I hope they've learnt from intel that they shouldn't be complacent.