3rd-Gen Threadripper Axed from AMD’s 2019 Roadmap

[Tsing]

Will AMD’s third-generation Threadripper products debut this year as planned? That appears to be unlikely. While the status of AMD’s new Ryzen 3000 chips have been updated to “mid-year,” Threadripper has vanished from the company’s latest roadmap to investors. The reason for the delay isn’t clear, but some speculate it could be due to limited 7nm supply.

…the best and most plausible speculation that can be entertained when one considers this is simple - a supply problem. With the 7nm node being the newest, most dense fabrication process possible, and with AMD having to share TSMC's 7nm wafer production with a number of high-profile companies - such as Qualcomm, for instance - may mean that supply is simply too tight to support Zen 2-based products across so many product stacks - Ryzen and EPYC - at the same time.

 

[Dan_D]

If there are supply problems, it makes sense to drop Threadripper. While certainly popular in some circles, its a very small market.

 

[David_Schroth]

Welp, there goes my upgrade path if this is true.

 

[Dan_D]

With 16 core and 32 thread AM4 CPU's on X570 with DDR5, there really isn't as much of a need for Threadripper. Especially is the rumor about 40 PCIe lanes being on the chipset is true. The only way a Threadripper could be relevant after that would be to give it Epyc's 8-channel memory and 128 PCIe lanes.