AMD at the Next Horizon conference in San Francisco announced the 2nd generation Zen microarchitecture. As announced at the event, Zen 2 will form the basis of a new family of chips that will be released over the next few years, starting next year, Venture Beat reports.

"Stones" on the basis of Zen 2 will be produced at TSMC plants using 14-nanometer FinFET technology. They are better than their predecessors in the prediction of the branches and the types of calculations required for subsequent processing.. As AMD Technical Director Mark Papermaster said, the newest chips have a more powerful built-in security system when data is fully encrypted during transmission to memory.. In addition, thanks to the modular “chiplet” technology, data can be transferred and queried to the processor cores more efficiently..

Novelties, AMD said, perform 52% more instructions per clock than the 1st generation of chips on the 14-nm Zen architecture, which debuted in March 2017.. The company has not yet disclose figures, but productivity gains in comparison with Zen + (presented this spring) are expected to be 10–15%.

With the help of Zen 2, AMD hopes to surpass or at least keep up with Intel, the largest manufacturer of processors for personal computers.. According to the head of AMD Liza Soo, the new chips are suitable for solving problems that require a high computational load: machine learning, big data processing, computing in the cloud, and so on. In 2020, she said, even more advanced 7-nm processors from the 3rd generation Zen will debut. And in 2019, the company expects to release the world's first 7-nm Epyc server chips under the working title Rome.