The tech world is buzzing with anticipation as Computex 2024 approaches, with AMD’s CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, slated to deliver the opening keynote. Set for the morning of June 3, 2024, Su’s presentation promises to unveil AMD’s latest advancements, highlighting the next generation of AMD products that boast new experiences and breakthrough AI capabilities from the cloud to the edge, and across PCs and intelligent devices. This year, Computex is zeroing in on six pivotal areas: AI computing, Advanced Connectivity, Future Mobility, Immersive Reality, Sustainability, and Innovations. With AMD at the forefront of CPU, GPU, and DPU technology, the company is well-positioned to cover these topics comprehensively.
AMD is riding high on its product cycle, preparing to launch major new CPU and GPU architectures before the end of 2024, with the much-anticipated Zen 5 CPUs and RDNA 4 GPUs. This marks a notably more aggressive plan than AMD’s last architecture cycle that began in 2022. AMD plans to introduce all three flavors of the Zen 5 architecture – the basic core, Zen 5c, and Zen 5 with V-Cache – along with a new mobile SoC (Strix Point), aiming for a comprehensive rollout within the year.
The upcoming keynote represents Dr. Lisa Su’s third appearance at Computex, following her impactful presentations in 2019 and 2022, where she unveiled major product lines and technological milestones. In 2019, she spotlighted the advancements in 3rd Generation Ryzen desktop processors, 7nm EPYC datacenter processors, and the world’s first 7nm gaming and datacenter GPUs. In 2022, Su gave a sneak peek at the Ryzen 7000-series desktop processors based on Zen 4 architecture, alongside the next generation of Radeon RX 7000-series GPUs with RDNA 3 architecture.
Simultaneously, reports indicate that AMD’s Zen 5 chips are set to hit mass production at TSMC in the summer of 2024, signaling a significant boost for gaming PCs. These chips, manufactured using TSMC’s advanced 3nm process for server-focused Zen 5c chips, aim to offer unparalleled efficiency and performance. For the PC gaming community, even the Zen 5 chips produced on the N4 lines are expected to surpass the current N5 chiplets that power the Ryzen 7000-series, promising more potent performance without increased energy consumption.
