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Dr. Lisa Su at Computex 2019: AMD Keynote Live Blog (10am TPE, 10pm ET, 02:00 UTC)
by Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on May 26, 2019 8:30 PM EST- Posted in
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09:32PM EDT - AMD is on a hell of a ride. With the public still wanting more information about Zen 2 and Navi from the CES announcements, Dr. Lisa Su will be taking to the stage here at Computex 2019 to deliver the show's lead-off CEO keynote, a first for AMD. We're all here ready to give you the details, stay tuned for our Live Blog. It starts at 10am local time, 10pm ET, 02:00 UTC.
09:34PM EDT - Gavin, Anton, and I are here, ready to go. 25 minutes to start
09:40PM EDT - The keynote area Taitra has for AMD seats 650. I was ticket number 2500 when I registered. They've put in an overflow room upstairs
09:45PM EDT - Looks like all the non-VIP seats are taken
09:49PM EDT - 10 minutes to go
09:50PM EDT - This presentation is going to start with a small Taitra presentation, then Lisa will come on stage
09:52PM EDT - Here's the official livestream of the event. Don't forget to have our commentary side by side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy0Q75xCwDU
09:58PM EDT - two minutes to go
10:02PM EDT - Final touches
10:03PM EDT - OK, here we go
10:03PM EDT - 'Computex has prepared to go above and beyond your expectations'
10:03PM EDT - Walter Yeh, CEO of Taitra to the stage
10:04PM EDT - This year, Computex is kicking off with the first keynote speech
10:04PM EDT - Computex is a partnership between Taitra and TCA
10:05PM EDT - Newer and newer engines drive innovation
10:05PM EDT - The semiconductor is the engine of this generation
10:06PM EDT - Taiwan and Computex Taipei participates in this revolution from the beginning
10:06PM EDT - This month is the 50th anniversary of AMD
10:06PM EDT - AMD is a pioneer in semiconductors
10:06PM EDT - Long time business partner with Taiwan
10:06PM EDT - Next-Gen computing
10:07PM EDT - Compuetx has played an important role in ICT, as Taiwan is a home to leading Semicon and Tech companies
10:07PM EDT - Entering a new era of innovation
10:07PM EDT - Always transforming and evolving, to maintain position as an innovator
10:08PM EDT - Last year, WEF ranked Taiwan as one of the top four of the super innovators, alongside Germany, US, and Switzerland
10:08PM EDT - Taiwan has a strong startup ecosystem
10:08PM EDT - Computex helps build global ecosystems
10:09PM EDT - Focusing on 5G, AI, IoT, BlockChain, Gaming, VR, Innovations, Startups
10:09PM EDT - Computex is expanding every year. New Nangang Hall 2 to provide new capacity
10:09PM EDT - 1685 exhibitors, 30 countries, 5508 booths. Up 10% on booths this year
10:10PM EDT - Computex also has InnoVEX for supply chain
10:11PM EDT - Biggest startup platform in Asia
10:11PM EDT - Keynotes this year from AMD, Intel, Microsoft
10:12PM EDT - Also now a Taipei 5G Summit
10:12PM EDT - (sorry, the lighting is really odd on the stage
10:13PM EDT - )
10:13PM EDT - 'For the next 5 years... er days, you will see at Computex'
10:13PM EDT - >If it's 5 years, I better tell the family
10:14PM EDT - Now announcing Dr. Lisa Su, CEO and President of AMD
10:14PM EDT - 'AMD is high performance compute people use every day'
10:14PM EDT - Launching worlds first 7nm CPU and GPU this year
10:15PM EDT - Major impact on the market
10:15PM EDT - In 2014, Su took over as CEO
10:15PM EDT - Has led the company to a number of achievements
10:15PM EDT - World Class and globally recognized business leader
10:15PM EDT - First ever AMD Keynote at Computex
10:15PM EDT - Lisa to the stage
10:15PM EDT - Video time
10:16PM EDT - 'architecting the future of gamign'
10:16PM EDT - 'AMD'
10:17PM EDT - Wonderful to be here in Taipei to open Computex press conference
10:17PM EDT - Computex is a magical show
10:18PM EDT - 50 year anniversary a few weeks ago on May 1st
10:18PM EDT - History of AMD - A Vision to push tech to its limits
10:18PM EDT - industry first to new technologies
10:19PM EDT - 2000 - 1st GHz CPU
10:19PM EDT - 2009 - first 1 GHz GPU
10:19PM EDT - 2018 - world first 7nm GPU
10:19PM EDT - Next 50 years is going to be more exciting than the first 50
10:19PM EDT - Demands for better experiences and more compute
10:20PM EDT - Lots of devices, lots of data
10:20PM EDT - AMD has one goal. To lead the industry
10:20PM EDT - AMD has to think differently about pushing the envelope
10:21PM EDT - AMD performs well in high-performance markets
10:21PM EDT - Datacenter, Gaming, PCs
10:21PM EDT - All of these are growth areas for AMD
10:21PM EDT - new technologies make a huge difference
10:21PM EDT - Being in semicon requires making big bets
10:21PM EDT - AMD has been making big bets
10:21PM EDT - high performance leadership - 7nm, Navi, chiplets
10:22PM EDT - AMD has chosen to be on the leading edge of process tech
10:22PM EDT - Partnering with TSMC
10:22PM EDT - they have the best process technology in the industry
10:22PM EDT - High performance Cores: Zen2 + Navi
10:22PM EDT - Today is about Zen 2, and Navi
10:23PM EDT - TO give an idea of the high performance engines to power the next decade
10:23PM EDT - It means putting the best tech in the best silicon in the best package in the best system = chiplets
10:23PM EDT - Today at Computex: Rome, Navi, Ryzen 3rd Gen
10:24PM EDT - Starting with Rome
10:24PM EDT - Video time
10:24PM EDT - EPYC
10:25PM EDT - All about the compute
10:25PM EDT - Datacenter helps the world save the worlds greatest challenges
10:25PM EDT - It all needs compute horsepower
10:25PM EDT - Two years ago, introduced EPYC
10:25PM EDT - AMD wanted to change the rules.
10:26PM EDT - More than 60 EPYC Platforms from many partners
10:26PM EDT - Globally, the largest enterprise deployments have EPYC. More than 50 cloud instances
10:26PM EDT - AMD are engineer that like to solve problems
10:27PM EDT - AMD was selected by Oak Ridge with Cray to build a 1.5 exaflop supercomputer. Frontier expected to be the world fastest sueprcomputer
10:27PM EDT - Using future generation EPYC and future generation Radeon Instinct
10:27PM EDT - The goal is to have the most powerful supercomputer in 2021 built on AMD
10:27PM EDT - (confirms Milan for 2021 then?)
10:28PM EDT - Video time
10:30PM EDT - First annoucnement of the morning
10:30PM EDT - Azure HB Virtual Machines. 1st EPYC HPC Cloud Offering
10:30PM EDT - Largest Scale CFD Sim in Cloud, more than 11500 EPYC cores. First customer got 7500x speed up using EPYC in cloud compared to before
10:30PM EDT - Update on Rome
10:31PM EDT - Built on 7nm, up to 64 Zen 2 cores, Compute/IO
10:31PM EDT - 4xFP per socket vs 1st gen, PCIe 4.0
10:31PM EDT - Forrest Norrod, SVP and GM of AMD Data Center to the stage
10:32PM EDT - Rome benchmark - 2S Rome getting 19.61ns/day, 2S 8280 gets 9.72ns/day
10:32PM EDT - AMD vs Intel
10:32PM EDT - Protein modelling and molecular dynamics
10:33PM EDT - 2x number of Rome platforms in development compared to Naples
10:33PM EDT - Coming in Q3
10:34PM EDT - Now for graphics
10:34PM EDT - 'for the future of gaming'
10:34PM EDT - PC, Console, and Cloud
10:34PM EDT - RADEON
10:35PM EDT - 'AMD Radeon is Everywhere'
10:35PM EDT - Over 400 million gamers today on Radeon
10:35PM EDT - PC, Notebooks, Apple, Consoles, Stadia
10:36PM EDT - Radeon Vega Momentum - Radeon VIII and Instinct MI60. Both 7nm
10:36PM EDT - Continue to see Vega in large compute intensive workloads
10:37PM EDT - Gamers are special. Over 2 billion gamers in the world. PC to smartphone
10:37PM EDT - Gamers are incredibly demanding
10:37PM EDT - Need performance in every form factor
10:37PM EDT - Need to build a GPU architecture to build it all
10:37PM EDT - Navi
10:37PM EDT - New family of Radeon GPUs
10:38PM EDT - Navi is in the next gen playstation
10:38PM EDT - Navi and Zen 2
10:38PM EDT - Revolutionizing the console for the next decade
10:39PM EDT - All new RDNA architecture (Radeon DNA)
10:39PM EDT - Faster clock speed, more performance at lower power
10:39PM EDT - NAVI is PCIe 4.0
10:40PM EDT - AMD has a long history of GPU architectures
10:40PM EDT - GCN will stay with compute workload applications
10:40PM EDT - AMD designed Zen in CPUs it was time for a from-scratch design for the future. The same thing for RDNA
10:40PM EDT - RDNA is the architecture that will power gaming for the next decade
10:41PM EDT - New Compute Unit Design, Improved Efficiency and increased IPC
10:41PM EDT - Multi-Level Cache Hierarchy - reduced latency, higher bandwidth, lower power
10:41PM EDT - Streamed graphics pipeline - optimized for performance per clock and high clock speed
10:41PM EDT - (so moving away from compute?)
10:42PM EDT - RDNA vs Vega, 1.25x perf/clock and 1.5x perf/watt
10:42PM EDT - 1.25x is architectural efficiency
10:43PM EDT - Announcing Radeon RX5000 Family
10:43PM EDT - '50'00 for AMD 50 birthday
10:43PM EDT - First Navi GPU on stage
10:44PM EDT - Some Navi in action too
10:44PM EDT - Strange Brigade
10:44PM EDT - RTX 2070 vs Navi RX 5000 Series
10:45PM EDT - about +10% perf in favor of Navi
10:45PM EDT - RX5700 GPU
10:46PM EDT - This is a preview
10:46PM EDT - Navi available in July
10:46PM EDT - More info at Navi on June 10th at E3
10:46PM EDT - Details about products and pricing on June 10th
10:47PM EDT - Now for Ryzen
10:47PM EDT - and the PC Market
10:48PM EDT - 1.5 Billion PC Users
10:48PM EDT - PC users want Performance, Energy Efficiency, Upgradeability, Gaming, Content Creation
10:48PM EDT - AMD has invested heavily in the PC market
10:48PM EDT - more innovation to be had in PCs
10:49PM EDT - PC market has subcategories of users. Consumers, Enthusiasts, Creators
10:49PM EDT - Each of the segments focus on different qualities
10:50PM EDT - The PC market, more than any other market, requires a tremendous ecosystem
10:50PM EDT - Microsoft to the stage
10:50PM EDT - Sorry, just a partner announcement
10:51PM EDT - Nope, Microsoft to the stage
10:51PM EDT - Roanne Sones, CVP OS Platforms
10:51PM EDT - PCs are everywhere
10:51PM EDT - PCs have to be safe and secure
10:52PM EDT - Powered by silicon and compute. CPU, GPU, and custom
10:52PM EDT - A wave of new experiences
10:52PM EDT - Deep partnership with Microsoft from Console to Cloud
10:52PM EDT - Ryzen helped move the needle in how Microsoft and AMD work together
10:53PM EDT - Ryzen integrated into every price point
10:54PM EDT - Ryzen family is going to hit 50% of modern devices this year
10:55PM EDT - Exciting things around the corner
10:55PM EDT - Partnerships only get deeper with time
10:55PM EDT - 2nd Gen AMD Ryzen Mobile Processors
10:55PM EDT - Launched at CES. Many more OEM systems here at Computex
10:56PM EDT - Acer, Lenovo, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo
10:56PM EDT - ASUS, Joe Hsieh to the stage
10:57PM EDT - COO
10:57PM EDT - ROG Ecosystem with wide range of AMD products
10:58PM EDT - ROG Zephyrus G GA502, ROG Strix X470-F Gaming, ROG Strix XG438Q, ROG Strix Radeon RX590
10:58PM EDT - ROG Strix GL10DH with AMD, launched today
10:59PM EDT - One of the first systems with Ryzen 3rd Gen
10:59PM EDT - New ASUS X570 Motherboards
10:59PM EDT - New legacy for X570
10:59PM EDT - Launch today latest X570
11:00PM EDT - Special tuning for memory, dedicated power for high-core count CPUs, 30 designs for customers
11:00PM EDT - (30 motherboards? Wat)
11:00PM EDT - ASUS 30 year anniversary this year
11:00PM EDT - Acer now to the stage
11:01PM EDT - Jerry Kao, COO of Acer
11:02PM EDT - AMD = Astonishing Miracle Delivery
11:02PM EDT - Predator Helios 500, 23k Geekbench score
11:03PM EDT - New Nitro 5 AMD notebook with latest Ryzen mobile
11:04PM EDT - Nitro 5 with Ryzen and Radeon
11:05PM EDT - Also Gaming Displays with FreeSync 2 HDR
11:05PM EDT - Nitro 50 desktops with AMD
11:06PM EDT - Broad product line with AMD - education, chromebook, thin and light, mainstream
11:06PM EDT - Gaming Desktops with 3rd Gen Ryzen
11:07PM EDT - Available very soon
11:07PM EDT - with Navi too
11:08PM EDT - Now for Matisse
11:08PM EDT - 3rd Gen Ryzen
11:08PM EDT - Video time
11:09PM EDT - Introducing today at Comptuex 2019: 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen Desktop Processor Family
11:09PM EDT - AMD was not satisfied with 1st/2nd gen Ryzen
11:09PM EDT - Needed to push the envelope on desktop
11:10PM EDT - New 7nm Zen 2 core, 3rd Gen on AM4, World's first PCIe 4.0 PC Platform
11:10PM EDT - Zen 2 Core PC Benefits
11:10PM EDT - The Core is the engine of the CPU, and Zen 2 is an incredible Core
11:11PM EDT - 2x Floating Performance - faster perf in creative workloads
11:11PM EDT - 2x cache size - reduced memory latency for gaming
11:12PM EDT - +15% IPC over Zen
11:12PM EDT - IPC lifts all applications
11:12PM EDT - Start with Ryzen 7 3700X
11:13PM EDT - 8C/16T, 65W TDP
11:13PM EDT - 3.6G Base, 4.4G Boost
11:13PM EDT - All in 65W!!!!! amazin'
11:13PM EDT - +15% gain in Cinebench R20 over Ryzen 7 2700X
11:13PM EDT - +18% MT in same test
11:14PM EDT - All in 40W less TDP
11:14PM EDT - On stage CBR20 test
11:15PM EDT - 9700K vs 3700X
11:15PM EDT - 3700X scores 4806cb
11:15PM EDT - 9700K scores 3726cb
11:16PM EDT - +1% gain in ST against 9700K
11:16PM EDT - Now Ryzen 7 3800X. 8C/16T, 3.9G Base, 4.5G Turbo, 105W TDP
11:17PM EDT - 3800X gives +15% gaming performance over 2700X
11:18PM EDT - 3800X matching the performance of the 9900K in PUBG
11:18PM EDT - CPU + GPU with PCIe 4.0
11:18PM EDT - Showing 3800X with RX5700 and X570 motherboard demo
11:18PM EDT - World's first PCIe 4.0 demo with CPU and GPU
11:19PM EDT - 9900K + 2080Ti vs 3800X vs RX5700 in a Gen 3 vs Gen 4 dedicated test
11:19PM EDT - 14 FPS vs 25 FPS
11:19PM EDT - 67% potential uplift from Gen 4
11:19PM EDT - Performance numbers
11:20PM EDT - In ST, AMD is at (or better) than the competition
11:20PM EDT - Broad ecosystem readiness. 56 X570 Launch Motherboards
11:21PM EDT - One more thing this morning
11:21PM EDT - Goign beyond 8 cores
11:21PM EDT - Announcing Ryzen 9
11:21PM EDT - Two chiplets
11:23PM EDT - Ryzen 9 3900X - 12C/24T, 105W TDP, 3.8 GHz Base, 4.6 GHz Boost
11:23PM EDT - 4 MB L2 + 64MB L3
11:23PM EDT - 9920X vs 3900X testing
11:24PM EDT - 32 secs on Ryzen 9 in blender test vs 38 seconds on Intel 9920X
11:24PM EDT - +14% ST performance on Ryzen 9 vs i9-9920X for 60W lower TDP
11:25PM EDT - Now pricing
11:25PM EDT - 3700X for $329
11:26PM EDT - 3800X for $399
11:26PM EDT - 3900X for $499
11:27PM EDT - (9920X is $1199)
11:27PM EDT - 3900X is +32% single thread over 1800X
11:27PM EDT - 3900X is +100% MT perf against 1800X
11:28PM EDT - Release date?
11:28PM EDT - July 7th
11:28PM EDT - 7nm CPU on 7/7
11:28PM EDT - Which is a Sunday, but AMD doesn't care
11:29PM EDT - That's a wrap