We all know by this point that AMD has been fighting an uphill battle over the past few years. The company has struggled to stay relevant with consumers as Intel continues to dominate nearly every sector of the market. AMD is barely keeping pace with its rivals massive R&D budget, and it shows in the chips it offers. Very few are a competitive value, and none can challenge Intels quickest.

But, despite seventeen-or-so lackluster sales quarters in a row, AMD may finally be primed to turn their luck around if a leaked slide acquired by Fudzillaisto be believed.

The slide, which is already being called into question by various sources, looks to be legitimate on the surface. It contains details about AMDs long-rumored Zen core APU, as well as the Greenland HBM (high-bandwidth memory) stream processor featuring a massive16GB of memory to spare.Supposedly the chip will be equipped with upwards of 16 Zen x86 cores, each of which couldsupport two threads each.

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Further technicals include 512KB of L2 cache, while each cluster of the Zens four cores will share an 8MB L3 cache. As any math majors out there have probably already figured out, when amped up to the possible 16-cores, this means that thischip could carry 8MB of L2 cache, and 32MB of L3. Thats alotof cache.Ifyoure in theposition like AMDs been in lately, go big or go out of businessare the only options.

The list of exciting possibilities continues withquad-channel DDR4 RAM (up to 3,200MHz), witha whopping 256GB of available memory per channel.

Other features to note arethe APUs 64 lanes of available third generation PCI Express channels, which can switch with SATA on the fly (sharing a max of 16), along with support for the companys crypto co-processor and secure boot feature, made with the enterprise market in mind.

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As far as a release schedule is concerned, rumors suggest AMD willroll out Zensometime in 2016.It should be noted, though, that this information comes only from leaked slides, and even if accurate a release so far away can easily be pushed back due to design issues. Whatever the plan may be, we hope to see this chip sooner rather than later. Perhaps it could give AMD a fighting chance.

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Rumors suggest AMD is eyeing a comeback with its new 16-core chip