AMD’s Zen 3, the sound of 64 cores clapping

AMD has generously and broadly used the designation Zen to describe various CPUs in their product line. The company’s latest offering in their server derby race is its 7nm Milan, the successor to the Rome processor. AMD says its Zen 3 architecture is 19% faster than Zen 2. Via a very slick virtual presentation, AMD executives showed the new AMD EPYC 7003 Series CPUs, including the 64-core AMD EPYC 7763. AMD’s irresistible Zen 3 block diagram (Source: AMD)   Milan will extend to 64 x64 cores and handle up to 128 threads per socket like Rome. Both die are built