AMD shows off die photo of quad-core Ryzen CPU

Posted on Thursday, February 09 2017 @ 14:58 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

The slides of AMD's ISSCC presentation reveal the first die shot of Zen. Pictured below is a quad-core Ryzen processor, it's made on GlobalFoundries' 14nm FinFET process and each individual core occupies 7mm². One block with four cores plus the L3 cache has a total die area of 44mm².

AMD Ryzen die

Some more ISSCC slides with technical information about the Zen architecture can be viewed at VideoCardz.

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