Unlike other makers of cooling systems, Noctua has its roadmap promoted on its sites and constantly updates it to show modifications in its item advancement strategies. The business’s Might 2023 roadmap brings a number of surprises as it includes ‘Next-gen AMD Threadripper coolers’ and gets rid of white fans from its strategies.
The main point that strikes the eye in Noctua’s roadmap is the reference of ‘next-gen AMD Threadripper coolers’ being available in the 3rd quarter. These items were not on the roadmap in January, per a slide released by Tom’s Hardware AMD has actually been reported to present its next-generation Ryzen Threadripper processors for workstations for a while, however this is practically the very first time when we have actually seen a basically main verification about the presence of such strategies, albeit not from AMD, however among its partners.
Considering that the verification does not originate from the CPU designer, we would not put our cash into introducing the next-generation Ryzen Threadripper based upon the Zen 4 microarchitecture in Q3. On the other hand, it is affordable to anticipate AMD’s codenamed Storm Peak processor to show up faster than later on given that the business has actually not upgraded this lineup in a while.
Other significant things in Noctua’s roadmap are a lot of Chromax black items due in Q4, a 24V to 12V voltage transformed set to show up in Q2, and a 24V 40-mm fan, which highlights that the business thinks about the ATX12VO community necessary to attend to. In addition, the company is prepping its next-generation 140-mm fans, which will show up in Q1 2024 in routine colors and after that later on in the year in Chromax– black variation.
Sadly, Noctua’s next-generation NH-D15 cooler, which as soon as was guaranteed to show up in Q1 2023, is not slated for at some point in 2024. On the other hand, the business’s roadmap no longer consists of white fans for a factor we can not describe. Maybe, the business chose to commit its resources in other places, or perhaps white plastic that the business thought about for white fans did not fulfill its expectations.
Source: Noctua