[tcoppi]

The timeframe is slightly disappointing since I think a lot of people were expecting Q3/Q4 2016.

The architecture itself sounds pretty much like what everyone was expecting, a traditional fat and wide core. Their power management and foundry process will probably make the difference as to whether final performance is impressive or not, may also be the cause of the delay.

[BlackMonday]

AMD stated for a while (march or so) that they maybe have small shipments in december, but the bulk of shipments will realy only start in Q1 2017.

Anyway, the first benchmark is promising, and I hope Zen can also keep up with Broadwell performance in other benchmarks/workloads, as well as in power efficency.