So says a report that dubs it Naples. You could reasonably argue that AMD is back on the up. There's plenty of interest in the upcoming RX 480 GPU launching at the end of the month. Somewhat further out is the brand-new CPU architecture known as Zen hewn from a leading-edge 14nm process. A number of slides from an extant presentation at Cern shows that Zen will come in swinging armed with up to 32 cores and 64 threads through symmetrical multi threading. Feeding the best, we know so far, is space for octo-channel DDR4 memory and heaps of IO as well as 10Gbe Ethernet.

Just how much juicy meat is on the Zen bones is provided by some details obtained by the folks over at Fudzilla. With a good track record of rumour turning into fact, Fudzilla opines that the top-level Zen processor, designed for the server environment, is indeed beastly in specification and will come to market early next year.