AMD Ryzen news: latest CPU architecture from AMD fully takes on Intel's territory

AMD has given new information regarding the much-anticipated AMD processor dubbed the Ryzen during the recently held Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. But one thing looks fairly certain, the company is coming down hard on rival Intel with various reiterations that it is not only here to compete but to eventually take over the market.

Arguably, there is still scarcity in terms of specifics of the Ryzen even after the CES event. Hence, the comparison will not be final until it is tried by users. But there are key pieces of information that AMD has straightforwardly confirmed to give potential buyers some motivation to check out the new chipsets. For starters, the eight-core, 16-thread processor is tipped to be faster and more efficient than its Intel counterpart. Multi-thread benchmarks that have been released so far claim that the Ryzen has a 10 percent advantage over the Core i7 6900K.

AMD's timing to rally its latest product cannot come at a more interesting time. Rival Intel has just released its brand-new mainstream quad-core Kaby Lake microprocessors and at this time, the set has been received with mixed opinions from those who were already able to sample it. The AMD Ryzen is poised to last for four years, as confirmed by Mark Papermaster, AMD's chief technology officer during the convention. Ironically this is the same the amount of time needed for it to be fully developed before being introduced to the public. And although the company exec declined to give any more specifics it has been reiterated that they are "not going tick-tock, Zen is going to be tock, tock, tock," referring to Intel's two-year tick-tock. Intel's cadence prompts them to develop a new microarchitecture every other year with Kaby Lake as the exception, given a bit of a stumble in the company's schematic scheduling.

No official release date has been announced but timeline-wise, the AMD Ryzen can be expected to drop in the middle or maybe even earlier in the first quarter instead of toward the end of the year. Industry people are betting that a February rollout is the most feasible in terms of pinpointing a month.