During the fourth quarter of 2023 financial earnings call, AMD’s CEO Dr. Lisa Su confirmed plans to launch the next-generation Zen 5 architecture in the second half of 2024. The products will encompass the desktop platform’s Granite Ridge, the mobile platform’s Strix Point, and Turin for the server platform.
According to Phoronix, AMD has begun adding support for the Zen 5 architecture through the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), indicating steady progress in the project. At least five new instruction sets will be introduced, including AVX-VNNI, MOVDIRI, MOVDIR64B, AVX512VP2INTERSECT, and PREFETCH. Among these, the most notable is AVX-VNNI, first adopted by Intel in 2021 with Alder Lake, which is a vector neural network instruction becoming increasingly important in AI applications.
Four of these instruction sets are already used in Intel processors, with the remaining one soon to appear on Granite Rapids. In a sense, AMD is catching up with Intel, but this doesn’t tell the whole story, as the strategies of the two companies differ. AMD does not prioritize instruction set support as Intel does, especially those related to AVX.
The GCC patch seen this time is not the first to add support for Zen 5 architecture processors. Since July last year, code related to the Zen 5 architecture has been emerging, with updates for Linux support, including new power management features. To date, AMD has not revealed much about the Zen 5 architecture, and more details are likely to be unveiled at Computex 2024.
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