According to the latest report from TechPowerUp, the Zen 4c core is not the E-core positioning of Intel’s processor. The Zen 4c core is 35% smaller than Zen 4 but has the same IPC.

As shown above, the AMD Zen 4c core size is 35% smaller than Zen4.

According to AMD’s official PPT, AMD Zen 4c and Zen 4 have basically the same various metrics, the difference being that Zen 4 cores have 3MB of L3 cache per core, while Zen 4c has 2MB.

AMD data shows that Zen 4c has exactly the same IPC (performance at a given frequency) as Zen 4 because it has the exact same front-end, execution stage, load/store components and internal cache hierarchy.

As reported earlier, AMD’s latest Bergamo processor focuses more on “cloud computing at the business level”, supporting up to 128 Zen 4c cores and compatible with x86 ISA instructions, which can relatively meet the needs of deep cloud computing applications. AMD’s President and CEO, Mr. C.F. Su, said that the Bergamo processor, which is focused on “cloud computing,” offers AMD’s largest vCPU computing density to date and provides “best-in-class energy efficiency” and “up to 2.5 percent more power than AMD’s previous EPYC processors. Bergamo processors offer up to 2.7 times the energy efficiency and three times the number of containers compared to AMD’s previous EPYC processors.

Previously, it was announced that AMD’s consumer mobile processors were also available in a “heterogeneous version” with the Zen 4 + Zen 4c combination, but AMD has yet to launch the processor series.

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Su Zifeng expresses pride in all AMD products

Su Zifeng even talked about her own childhood, revealing that her parents’ attention to science and engineering played a big role in shaping her interest. With the encouragement of her parents, Su Zifeng actively received education on these topics and believes that everyone can work together to change the world.

As for the strategic shift at AMD, the executive highlighted some of the big decisions she made as CEO, including focusing her business on products, analyzing which technologies are at inflection points, and building strong relationships with customers.

Su Zifeng also delved into the philosophy of communication, which involves repeating the desired goals, decisions and steps over and over again. In addition, she also launched an inside-out analysis of the rise of Taiwan as a global semiconductor manufacturing center.

"It can be seen that with the increasing complexity of manufacturing, companies need to invest heavily in chip production to achieve this. However, the wisdom of Taiwan is that practitioners understand this early on, thereby maintaining its long-term advantage.

Su Zifeng is also optimistic that AMD is committed to long-term markets such as high-performance and adaptive computing, and that the demand for related businesses will maintain steady growth over time.

If you want to survive in this industry with only a few players but extremely competitive industry, the key is how to differentiate your own products from competing products and how to increase added value."

For engineers, one of the main benefits of working at AMD is that they can have a huge impact on the technology industry, even if the company is not the largest in the industry.

According to Su, making everyone proud of their work and focusing on making technology meet customer needs is a key to managing the company’s workforce.

AMD also has its own considerations for the geopolitical situation that has been frequently brought to the table in recent years. Lisa Su said:

"On the one hand, as a U.S. business, the company is well aware of some national security concerns.

On the other hand, AMD is very focused on doing business in a globalized market and has a large number of partners around the world.

Frankly, AMD has people all over the world, and we've worked really hard to try and strike a balance between the different parts of the company.

At least at this stage, we still believe that this is the best way to operate for AMD."

At the end of the day, it’s clear that developing great products requires a long-term goal and consistent effort.

In the case of the Zen architecture CPUs, for example, AMD began five years ago to focus on becoming a leader in the field by setting step-by-step goals and measuring its progress.

AMD is known for its philosophy that “no one is perfect and no company is perfect”. But engineers focused on their long-term projects can still learn from each effort and strive to do better the next time.

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The OpenMandriva ROME Gold Candidate is the latest enhancement to this rolling release. OpenMandriva ROME uses the Clang-built Linux 5.18 kernel, KDE Plasma 5.26 Beta and other “very new” KDE components, LibreOffice 7.4.1, LLVM Clang 15.0.1 as the default system compiler, systemd 251, and a ton of other software Package update. OpenMandriva ROME is an interesting rolling-release Linux distribution, in part because it continues to embrace LLVM Clang by default instead of GCC, including building the Linux kernel and other key components with Clang.

OpenMandriva also differentiates itself from other Linux distributions by continuing to offer a Linux distribution optimized for AMD Zen “znver1”. The Znver1 flavor of OpenMandriva rebuilds the entire package archive with “-march=znver1” to optimize binaries for AMD Zen 1 processors and later.

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