In the last quarter of 2015, AMD and their Radeon Technologies Group did something we?ve rarely seen in the secretive world of tech companies. They sat down members of the press, gave us an iron-clad NDA and started talking about their plans for the next year. While that's what typically happens behind closed doors, AMD added in a refreshingly new twist: we wouldn't have to wait until a product's official launch to actually talk about what was being discussed. Instead, there were preset times throughout 2015 and 2016 were we could publish information well in advance and give our readers a glimpse at some exciting elements coming down the pipeline. One of the key take-aways from those meetings was details about AMD's upcoming GPU architecture, code named Polaris.