The semiconductor business is extremely competitive. The timely introduction of the latest technology generation is essential to meeting product time-to-market goals. This is no truer than in the graphics processor industry, where a couple key vendors vie to provide the latest must-have hardware.

AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group launched its Radeon™ VII in January at the CES 2019 Las Vegas event, taking the lead as the first mainstream graphics-chip architecture to be produced on a 7nm fabrication process.