AMD's 3rd generation EPYC line of enterprise processors that leverage the "Zen 3" microarchitecture, could innovate in two directions - towards increasing performance by doing away with the CCX (compute complex) multi-core topology; and taking advantage of a newer/refined 7 nm-class node to increase clock-speeds. Igor's Lab decoded as many as three OPNs of the upcoming 3rd gen EPYC series, including a 64-core/128-thread part that ships with frequency of 3.00 GHz. The top 2nd gen EPYC 64-core part, the 7662, ships with 2.00 GHz base frequency and 3.30 GHz boost; and 225 W TDP. AMD is expected to unveil its "Zen 3" microarchitecture within 2020.