Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, shows off the 7-nanometer Navi GPU.
Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, shows off the 7-nanometer Navi GPU.
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AMD unveils 16-core Ryzen processor and 7-nm Navi graphics chips

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Advanced Micro Devices unveiled a new 7-nanometer, 16-core Ryzen 3 processor and a 7-nanometer Navi graphics processing unit (GPU) that will challenge Intel in chips for gaming machines.

Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, made the announcement at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade show in Los Angeles this week. It’s been a good week for AMD, considering on Sunday Microsoft announced that AMD’s processor and graphics chips would be used in Project Scarlett, which is Microsoft’s new game console coming in the holidays of 2020.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.