Ryzen Release Thread

[SteelCrysis]

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-3d...38838.html

AMD revealed at a recent high performance computing event that it is working on new designs that use 3D-stacked DRAM and SRAM on top of its processors to improve performance.
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Norrod explained the challenges with frequency scaling: "The dirty little secret in the industry, though, over the last ten years that has stopped, and may now be regressing[...]As we continually shrink our processes now, we don't get any more frequency, and really with this next node, without doing extraordinary things, we get less frequency."
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Norrod didn't dive into more specifics of any designs under development, but this could prove to be a fundamental shift in AMD's processor design. Intel's fast pace of development with its own 3D Foveros technology could prove to be a defining moment for the industry, so it isn't surprising to hear that AMD is moving in this direction to keep pace. For now, details are under wraps, but we've followed up with AMD for more information.