AMD finally unveiled its AMD Naples 32 Cores CPU for 1P and 2P servers. The latest product will be released in Q2.

AMD's series of Zen microarchitecture rollout is not yet over. The first stage took place during the launch of Ryzen, its new desktop-oriented product line just last week. The third stage is the APU launch, centered mostly on mobile parts. In the middle second stage, is the Naples, and possibly the more substantial element to entire AMD's Zen story.

With the latest announcement today, AMD is preparing the stage for the upcoming Naples platform. Officially, Naples will bear the name of the product line. The high-end AMD Naples processor will have 32 cores, with simultaneous multi-threading (SMT), to give an aggregate of 64 threads. This will be combined with eight channels of DDR4 memory; up to two DIMMs per channel for 16 DIMMs, together with a single CPU will support 128 PCIe 3.0 lanes.

AMD Naples will be presented as either a single processor platform (1P) or a dual processor platform (2P). The dual processor mode will be a 64 cores and 128 threads system with each processor using 64 of its PCIe lanes as a communication bus amongst the processors as part of AMD's Infinity Fabric.

The AMD Naples memory supports up to 2TB of DRAM per socket. It has eight channels and two DIMMs per channel. The total memory bandwidth available to a single CPU clock in at 170 GB/s, says Anandtech.

The new AMD Naples processor boasts a maximum of 32 cores per die. With multi-threading, this becomes 64 logical cores. The new motherboard design for the AMD Naples processor can handle as much as two dies, thereby bringing up the maximum number of physical cores to 64.

The eight channels and two DIMMs per channel on its memory side support up to 2TB of DRAM per socket, creating 4TB on a single server. The total memory bandwidth accessible to a single CPU clock in at 170 GB/s.