It is that epoch of the year where I compare my predictions with reality. It worked well in the past with typical errors in the single digit percent. Let us check if the trend continues for the predictions I did for RyZen, despite this is a brand new microarchitecture instead an evolution of an existent microarchitecture. Note that most of my predictions are from years 2104 and 2015. You can find lots of false claims about my predictions in the Internet; you can find even a funny guy that pretends that I had said that Zen could not pass the 2GHz. I will do some remarks about those claims below, meanwhile you can find a summary of my predictions in this post (older forum has gone). A 2016 update on my prediction of 8-core die size can be found in this other post (older forum has gone). I predicted that Ryzen --then known as Zen-- would be made in 14LPP process at Globalfoundries. I predicted Zen was going to be a small core with a size of "~5mm²" (without L2) on the 14LP