Why wait until next year to buy a new PC?AMD is stepping down to 5nm and Intel is stepping down to 10nm and starting to use TSMC 6nm (built at TSMC, not Intel). This is assuming TSMC wishes to support a competitor fab company called Intel Foundry Services ..... a brand new competitor who has just announced their plans to take TSMC's business away from them.
Don't think TSMC isn't smart enough to listen to AMD and to sell that 6nm wafer volume to AMD instead of to Intel .......
Throughput improvements next year will be 30-40% roughly speaking, with PCIe at gen 4 and gen 5 (depending on when you buy it). 4 threads per core SMT will be available. 8-16 data channels will be available. Memory speeds and throughput will double. AI will be more capable and more accepted in OS and programs in general.
Core counts from Epyc mainframe chipsets will roll down into upper level workstation chipsets, upper level workstation will edge down into homeowner PC ranges. All of this will be driven by the MUCH SMALLER and much faster and more efficient 5nm chiplets
AMD and Xilinx will have completed their merger by next year and several new conjoined technologies will become available for the first time in consumer PCs.
More competition will be available to drive more progress in an even faster manner, with ARM PC chipsets, Apple chipsets and new Intel made at TSMC chipsets ......
What you buy next year will be that much better than what you can buy today. Cheaper, too.Nothing available right now from Intel tests to be much better than the Intel you already own -- hunt up the BIOS updates for your motherboard and install them to get over 50% of the real world benefits of a new Intel machine (you get all the AI tricks in other words).
Note please how drastic the improvements have been since Ryzen came upon the scene. Intel had kept everybody parked at a 4 core product for over 10 years at that point in time.
More on the ongoing struggle to find more AMD chiplet wafers .......
As you view the chart above, realize that AMD has already sold all of what they can make with their scheduled 7nm TSMC chiplet wafer supply. As such, AMD is seeking MORE WAFERS OF CHIPLETS and has told TSMC to either provide these additional wafers of chiplets or the contractual second source clauses will have to come into effect.
It is rumored that TSMC has already bumped AMD's 5nm allocation as high as they can and has told AMD that if AMD wants any more wafers they will have to come from the new 6nm process lines that the old TSMC 7nm lines are being converted to as we speak.
Now we will see the TRUE FLEXIBILITY offered by the AMD chiplet production system. AMD already has 6nm completed processor designs on tap and once the actual 6nm chiplets get made, tested and binned AMD can then select which products will be best able to use them.
All of the 7nm layouts can take a 6nm chiplet with a little room to spare (folks argue that 7nm++ is actually a near to 6nm to begin with) and AMD can certainly maximize this short notice chiplet change very easily with their existing processor designs.
Next, AMD has a flow of new products coming on that can be adapted specifically to use these new 6nm chiplets once they actually can get them in larger volumes.
Lastly, Intel has already announced they are going to TOTALLY SHRED the whole 10-7-6-5-3 nano-meter nomenclature thing inside the next 6 months, calling their 10nm product the Intel 6nm or 5nm or 3nm depending on just how much they want to lie about it.
AMD's minor 7nm++ to 6nm cheat is indeed a very minor sin compared to Intel's contemplated goings on.
AMD simply needs much greater wafer output numbers to continue taking more of the 50%+ market share graph zone away from Intel.
TSMC wants to keep that AMD business intact and they had long promised AMD to be able to make enough wafers of AMD chiplets to do just that.
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