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The launches are aligned to the global OEM schedule for availability.

Keep an eye on the public news from our social channels - AMD can't announce anything for another company without their permission, so if there is a FreeSync capable TV, I can't tell you any details.

Thanks for the kind words, and you're right - we are keeping focused on execution and customers. It's a point our leadership make in every all-hands. Running out of capacity would be a nice problem to have. We have great relationships with our foundry partners so we'll manage as necessary to...

95C is your shutdown temp. So you can drive the frequency/voltage to keep inside of that. Personally I'm comfortable with max temps in the upper 80s and voltages around 1.45v max.

I can't comment on your speculation. Don't use my simplistic breakdown to inform you for large scale decisions like investing, or market outlook for AMD.

We don't break out cost at that level, sorry. The decision to use a non-soldered TIM was based on market segmentation, time to market, as well as overall cost profile. It's a decision we can re-examine for future products based on market feedback and success.

I'm not in tech marketing, but we do evaluate different instruction extensions to help improve our products, based on area, efficiency, adoption rate, implementation cost, etc. I have no info on RoCM, sorry.

You know, I'm not sure but I'm pretty sure it's 14nm or maybe 14nm+.

We support this through our efforts on OpenCL and other open source software.

We're looking at ways to make it simpler, for sure. It's mostly a cost and alignment problem, which means it's solvable with time. Despite the hassles, I think end users prefer to have some kind of cross-compatibility than a forced purchase of new platforms. How we set the expectations was...

1 - The "Zen" modularity is at the CCX level, which is designed as a four core with l3 cache unit (read more in the ISSCC papers). 2 - Ryzen Desktop with Radeon Graphics is a single CCX design. 3 - For foundry process we'll select the node that offers the best mix of performance, efficiency...

1 - 14nm+ is an improvement over the original 14nm used for 1st Gen Ryzen. Ryzen Desktop with Radeon Vega graphics ("Raven Ridge") went to final production with 14nm+; the benefit was a lower voltage for same frequency curve, vs 1st Gen Ryzen. This allowed us to put the first implementation of...

Hi A-Key-san, unfortunately I have no knowledge in that area.

When I joined in mid-2013, Zen had been under development for a year or a little more.

Broad strokes, the phases look something like this: Architecture development Product outline definition Product modeling and synthesis First tape out Bring up validation Refinement and improvement for performance, yield, cost, features Final Tape out Platform Validation Mass Production The...