Ryzen

Ryzen is a multithreaded, high performance processor released by AMD in Q1, 2017. Its goal is to directly compete with Intel's

Firmware
Microcode/firmware updates to be determined...

GCC
GCC 6.3 has support for the znver1 compiler optimization. For optimal performance, this can be enabled in.

External resources

 * http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-ryzen-znver1&num=1 - Benchmarks.