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AMD Ryzen

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Ryzen is a brand of multi-core x86-64 microprocessors designed and marketed by AMD for desktop, mobile, server, and embedded platforms, built on AMD's Zen microarchitecture. AMD announced Ryzen on December 13, 2016 and released it on March 2, 2017, manufactured at various points by GlobalFoundries at 14 and 12 nanometers and by TSMC at 7 nanometers and below, with core counts spanning 4 to 96 and clock speeds from 1.2 to 5.7 gigahertz. Ryzen marked AMD's return to competitiveness in high-performance CPUs after roughly a decade behind Intel, offering more cores at comparable prices.

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Launch Year
2017 1
AMD announced Ryzen in December 2016; value uses 2017, the year the first processors actually shipped, per the same article's Release section.
Maker
AMD 1
Classification
Sector (GICS)
Information Technology 1
Offering Kind
Product 1
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1. Wikipedia, Ryzen
Wikipedia
  • lead section, REST API summary extract
    Ryzen is a brand of multi-core x86-64 microprocessors, designed and marketed by AMD for desktop, mobile, server, and embedded platforms, based on the Zen microarchitecture.
  • Release section
    AMD announced a new series of processors on December 13, 2016, named Ryzen, and delivered them in Q1 2017, the first of several generations.
  • Introduction, GICS sector classification
    Ryzen is a brand of multi-core x86-64 microprocessors, designed and marketed by AMD for desktop, mobile, server, and embedded platforms, based on the Zen microarchitecture.
  • Introduction, offering kind classification
    Ryzen is a brand of multi-core x86-64 microprocessors, designed and marketed by AMD for desktop, mobile, server, and embedded platforms, based on the Zen microarchitecture.
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