AMD received its fourth quarter earnings yesterday and the company had some news about its new processor and graphics card. The new Ryzen processor will be launched in early March, as expected.
A release date from early March has been on the cards for a while now, as we have pointed out in our Ryzen article details and expectations. Rumors had been backed by the existence of a GDC panel, which ran from February 27 to March 3, entitled "Ryzen CPU Optimization". Su also confirmed AMD's plans for "Zen 2" and "Zen 3", and said the company maintains the 7nm technology in mind for its follow-ups to Ryzen.
Ryzen is AMD's attempt to recover with Intel in the CPU game, and Su said the new chips will be competing with Intel Core i5 and i7 processors. Last year, 60 percent of AMD's revenue came from its GPUs, meaning that only the combined 40 percent came from their CPUs and hardware found on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles. Even if Ryzen does not topple The new Intel chips, at least there will be more competition in the CPU market.
On the final graphics card of things, AMD also confirmed the next Vega GPU will be released during the second quarter of the year. The company believes that the highly anticipated GPU could outperform the top of Nvidia's GTX 1080 line.
As for actual earnings numbers, AMD reported a 7 percent increase in last year's revenue, up to $ 1.1 billion, however, it has reported a net loss of $ 51 million, claiming $ 26 million in operating income After the expenses. AMD expects revenue to decline 11 percent in the current quarter due to a lack of new hardware prior to Ryzen's launch.
Therefore, it seems likely that we will see AMD Ryzen before March 3, and the rumored June release for Vega is a good bet.
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