AMD's next generation Zen CPUs will be launching at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in January 2017.
The CES (Consumer Electronics Show) which is going be held in Las Vegas early next year. All the events will be taking place during 3rd to 8th of January.
This next generation desktop processors code-named Summit Ridge will be installed up to eight cores & sixteen threads which will be compatible with AMD's upcoming AM4 platform.
AM4 platform will be wide range motherboards that will on the show floor, including the high-end models featuring the X370 series chipset, reports wccftech.
All Zen FX CPUs that are part of the Summit Ridge group will include the company's new platform security processor, PCIe 3.0 support featuring dual channel DDR4 memory controllers equipped with copious amounts of L3 cache and updated storage features.
According to PC World, AMD's Director of Commercial Business Development John Hampton told about the new chips coming, "Enterprises want to keep PCs for as many years as possible, so the ability to easily upgrade to successor chips is important," Hampton said.
AMD Zen is the company's first ever CPU architecture to feature multithreading. It is very first product for AMD to be built on a process technology that's very close just like the Intel.
AMD clearing its existing stock of FX 8300, 4300 and 6300 series processors with a combination of aggressive price cuts and offers to make a good room for Zen.
Following the speculations, this new chipset will be running the 4K-display videos. High-end X370 AM4 motherboards will start its shipping in December and will launch at CES.
According to iDigitalTimes report, AMD is showing a good performance since the beginning of this year. The company's Polaris GPUs had also made a good for AMD. The company's market share is also increased by 4.8pp consecutively.
AMD has already announced that the Zen chips will target the PC enthusiast audience where the company has no product to compete against its competitors; the midrange FX-class processors CPUs it has at best are the priced at the highest $159, reports TechFrag.
