Now that AMD has dropped off Ryzen chipsets (Summit Ridge Family) from the bag, another set of CPU are set to be unveiled at the end of 2017. Reports suggest that "Pinnacle Ridge" will be the name of the new chipset family based on Zen 2 architecture.

Another AMD CPU family is about to debut in the fourth quarter of 2017 when the company revealed about the refreshed Zen microarchitecture called "Zen 2" during the Game Developers Conference. According to WCCF Tech, Pinnacle Ridge which will succeed Summit Ridge (Ryzen) will consist of Zen 2-based chipsets that offer better performance both for desktop and server users.

In relation to that, Pinnacle Ridge CPU will have a 60 to 65 percent of increase in IPC or Instructions Per Clock which is higher than Summit Ridge CPU with 52 percent. The 5 to 15 percent increase in IPC is considered as a big step ahead of its performance.

Aside from the performance boost, AMD's Pinnacle Ridge is likely to provide solution to issues such as gaming applications optimization, higher clocked DDR4 memory compatibility and CPU lower clock speeds. Furthermore, AMD executive also revealed about Pinnacle Ridge's compatibility with AM4 revised socket as well as providing backward compatibility to the older desktop chips.

On the other hand, AMD is reportedly not coming up with new names on their Zen 2-based chipset. This is completely opposite to what they did with Bulldozer architecture in 2011, Piledriver in 2012, Steamroller in 2014 and Excavator in 2015, Digital Trends reported.

Now that AMD has started rolling out its Zen 1-based Ryzen CPU and started working on Zen2, the company is also expected to be working on Zen 3 architecture which is purported to offer 80 percent performance boost on ISP. Meanwhile, AMD Ryzen 7 desktop processors are on sale and Raven Ridge APU is about to debut in September 2017.

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