Given that Ryzen has begun shipping, the design work on the underlying Zen architecture was naturally completed long ago. “So they’ve been well at work on the Zen 2 follow-on,” he said.
What’s more, AMD’s design teams run “leapfrog” roadmaps, so a second team has made good progress on Zen 3, Papermaster added. “I’ve never been so proud of a CPU roadmap,” he said.
I'm thinking Dr Lisa Sue is thinking strategically ahead of the curve best CEO for AMD ever as she is an Engineer not just a CEO.
Just saying Intel did not anticipate this woman's drive for success.
Lets not forget about AMD's huge partnership with Samsung which is just as big as Intel these days, also they just promised to double up on production of HBM2 so we could see a Vega+ refresh, a Zen+ refresh before Zen2 and we could see Zen Vega APU and a refresh to that, it would not be crazy both Intel and AMD do it every so often.