Rumor: AMD to produce Zen 3 chips Ryzen Embedded V3000 at 6nm

Ryzen Embedded V3000 processors are produced at 6nm and contain Zen 3 cores and an RDNA2-based GPU. At least that is stated in the specifications of the successor to the V2000 series that have appeared.

At least three models are rumored to be appearing in the Ryzen Embedded V3000 series. These are the V3748 and V3718 with eight cores and clock speeds of 3.1GHz and 2.6GHz respectively and the V3516 with six cores and a clock speed of 2.8GHz. Patrick Schur publishes the specifications; he is more likely to release information about processors early.

AMD would produce the Zen 3 processors at 6nm, where it will have the V2000 generation of Zen 2 chips produced at 7nm by TSMC. The V3718 would have twelve RDNA2-based Compute Units, while the other two V3000 processors would have to make do with eight RDNA2 CUs.

Furthermore, the chips would support two USB 4.0 interfaces, up to two DDR5-4800 memory modules and twenty PCIe 4.0 lanes. It is unclear when AMD will introduce the processors. The company announced the Embedded V2000 series in November last year.

With the embedded processors, AMD focuses on applications for thin clients, mini PCs and so-called edge computing, which includes many devices such as those for internet-of-things applications.

TSMC made according to Anandtech announced at the beginning of June during its Technology Symposium that the 6nm output in the fourth quarter should be at the level of the 7nm node, where it was still at 15 percent of the 7nm production at the end of 2020. The 6nm production is an optimized variant of the 7nm node, among other things by using EUV.

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