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It is expected that the Zen based Summit Ridge Desktop processor might be launched by AMD on January 17, 2017.

An image and a letter have arrived from AMD's Chinese partner providing information about the upcoming 8core/16 Thread CPU, University Herald reports.

The Chinese partner MAXSUN claims that the first Zen chips would be a part of AMD's SR7. For Zen, it is believed that AMD will adopt the naming scheme of SR7, SR5, and SR3 which is similar to Intel's i7, i5and i3 lineup. AMD further suggests that these would be the first Zen components that will be released.

The Zen processor will have eight physical cores and 16 virtual threads which would be capable of delivering performance at par similar to Intel's Core i7-6850K. The submit Ridge processor have achieved scores identical to the Intel processor.

AMD may also have special over locking variants for the Zen processors. Under the hood, the company has optimized the clock speeds for the Submit Ridge chips around 3.15-3.30 GHz base and 3.5 GHz boosts on FinFET process.

The SR7 processors are tagged as decent over lockers because of its clocking speed of 4.2 GHz which can be boosted by a CPU cooler. The LN2 cooling is up to 5GHz.

Motherboard chipsets namely X370, A320, and A350 would be released by the company for the AM4 platform. X370 would be the flagship chipset for AM4 supporting enhanced over locking. It has two x16 motherboard slots for AMD CrossFire and NVIDIA SLI   multi-GPU configuration.

Zen Processor as part of AMD's SR7 range may be priced around $200 to $300 per piece. The special variants may have a price of $500.

AMD would partner with MAXSUN for the sake of shipping the high-performance AM4 motherboards. The lower end Zen chipsets and motherboards might be revealed in March next year.