Well, they have until some debts are due in 2019. Keller's leading Zen, and it looks like AMD might have the 14nm line, plus they had dibs on HBM2 modules. I have high hopes, it's just going to be a bumpy road the rest of this year.
I'm hoping we see Zen or possibly a 14/16nm FinFet Excavator before the end of the year. And that looks to be a massive strategic move, corning the market on HBM2, guessing we'll see a refresh to the Fury line soonish with HBM2 and increased memory. Need holing my breath on that though.
Its obvious people do research now days they don't just randomly go out and buy a processor or a graphics card. It really comes down to bad design choices. Ive been looking waiting for something worth while to upgrade to from my 1090t. sure there are better processors out there. and to be honest ive been eyeballing an intel 6 core just for the simple fact that it is the only real positive performance and power benefit sure the platform costs more but when you have the best processors you get more money.. more demand for your products im holding out for this next cpu release and unless I see meaningful differences. I plan to go intel I love to save money I don't need the best or the bleeding edge. Just something that will last me until my next upgrade cycle witch tends to be every 5 years.
Yeah, I'm in the same boat here. Still sitting on my 1090T, been eying upgrades. But either way I go I have to buy a new motherboard, since my 890Fx deluxe 4 won't support the newer Piledriver CPU's. Which begs the question, do I want to upgrade to a 990FX when AM3 may be a dead end socket. Or Switch to Intel, and go a mid range i5.... I've really been wanting to wait for at least Excavator on the desktop or Zen before upgrading though. On the other hand, I may replace my old HD7850 with an R9 Fury, especially if I can catch one on sale.