[The Exiled]

Interview with AMD’s Forrest Norrod: Naples, Rome, Milan, & Genoa

From day one, I always said to the team that Naples doesn't matter if we don't deliver Rome, if we can't look at our customers and say Rome is on time. By the way, Rome doesn't matter if we don't look at our customers and say Milan is on time, or it doesn't matter if we don't tell customers that we're ready to deliver Genoa. I'm going to stop there because otherwise I'm going to giveaway code names we haven't said yet. But for the removal of doubt, Genoa is the Zen 4 design. Here's an exclusive: the one after that is another Italian City. Even with Intel's (Xeon Platinum 8280 + Xeon Platinum 9282) road map delays, we have continued to execute within a quarter of when we said we were going to execute - we've always come out within one quarter of where we planned it 3 years ago.

Milan is right on track as well, but Intel is not, and so the relative competitiveness of Rome is actually better than we had originally had planned. You can take a Rome, and you can take your existing Naples platform, and you can drop Rome in the Naples platform with a new BIOS and it'll work. However you will only have PCIe Gen3 and you'll have DDR4-2666. If you upgrade the platform and re-do the design on the I/O channels, then you can use PCIe Gen4. So it's very similar to what we do on the client side as well. We aren’t stating the memory speed, but you do get more than DDR4-2666. Rome will support more, both in memory speed and in memory capacity.

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