March 2, 2017
Lisa Su launches AMD Ryzen on Zen architecture
AMD launched Ryzen processors on the Zen architecture on March 2, 2017 — ending years of Intel CPUCentral processing unit — the primary chip that executes program instructions. dominance in desktop performance.
What it was for
Under Lisa Su's leadership, Zen delivered competitive IPC and core counts at aggressive prices — reviving AMD in servers with EPYC and in gaming with Ryzen. It reshaped the x86Intel's dominant CPU architecture family — the instruction set behind most PCs and servers for decades. duopoly.
People
- Lisa Su — ceo
Companies
- AMD
Why it's here
Zen was AMD's comeback architecture after the Bulldozer era.
Why it mattered
Competitive CPUs lowered cloud and PCPersonal computer — a computer designed for individual use, especially desktop or laptop machines. costs and accelerated innovation.
What it solved
AMD had fallen behind Intel on performance per watt and market share.
Media
ImageLisa SuFuzheado, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Related
- Lisa Su named AMD CEOOctober 8, 2014
- Jensen Huang co-founds NVIDIAApril 5, 1993