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An interview with AMD's Mike Clark, 'Zen Daddy' says 3nm Zen 5 is coming fast

AMD expands on its Zen 5 architecture.

However, Clark said he thinks compact cores will come to future Ryzen desktop chips and also expanded on the techniques the company uses for its unique implementation. [..] There are sort of logical blocks, and there are even subblocks, but to hit the high frequency in certain critical speed pads, we have to break the design down into small pieces, which we then do custom work on. And so, on both sides, I think a lot of the trick is, and I’m sure Intel's learned this too, is laying out the floor plan in a way that you're cognizant of where hotspots are going to be, knowing also that you never get everything right, so putting in sensors everywhere — but especially where you're worried.

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