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Zen 2 is a planned microarchitecture being developed by AMD as a successor to Zen+. Zen 2 is expected to be succeeded by Zen 3.

History

Zen 2 is set to succeed Zen in the future, sometimes around 2019. In February of 2017 Lisa Su, AMD's CEO announced their future roadmap to include Zen 2 and later Zen 3. On Investor's Day May 2017 Jim Anderson, AMD Senior Vice President, confirmed that Zen 2 is set to utilize 7 nm process.

Codenames

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Architecture

Nothing is currently known about the architectural improvements that is being done to Zen 2.

Key changes from Zen

• 7 nm process (from 14 nm)

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New instructions

Zen 2 introduced a number of new x86 instructions:

• CLWB - Force cache line write-back without flush
• RDPID - Read Processor ID
• WBNOINVD - Force cache line write-back without invalidation

References

• AMD 'Tech Day', February 22, 2017
• AMD 2017 Financial Analyst Day, May 16, 2017

See Also

• Intel Ice Lake