AMD Ryzen 2000 Pinnacle Ridge chips expected in March

Posted on Thursday, January 04 2018 @ 12:57 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

More evidence emerges that AMD plans to launch the Ryzen 2000-series "Pinnacle Ridge" processors in March. The launch of the second-generation Ryzen CPUs will be accompanied with two new motherboard chipsets; the X470 for the high-end and the mid-range B450.

The two chipsets are differentiated from their current-generation 300-series counterparts in featuring PCI-Express gen 3.0 general purpose lanes. The "Pinnacle Ridge" processors, on the other hand, are expected to be optical-shrinks of current Ryzen "Summit Ridge" silicon to the new 12 nm silicon fabrication process, which will allow AMD to increase clock speeds with minimal impact on power-draw.

The Pinnacle Ridge CPUs use the same Socket AM4 as current Ryzen chips and should be compatible with existing motherboards after a BIOS update. AMD plans to offer backwards compatibility until 2020,

Via: TPU

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