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"Zen 2 is coming on 7nm, which is slightly denser than Intel's 10nm, both are due to be in production mostly in 2018, Glofo/Zen 2 end of 2018, Intel are doing Cannonlake early 2018 but it's mobile only and probably only dual core as well as they are struggling with yields and clock speed/power on the new process much as they did with Broadwell which did the same thing, initial full launch reduced to mobile only and desktop a year later.
Currently 14nm glofo is more like a 17-18nm process and it's only designed for 3Ghz, Glofo 7nm is designed for 5Ghz clocks.
So from here Intel are moving to a 10nm process which they've flat out stated has lower performance than 14nm ++ their current process, but it will have lower power and density, they won't have desktop till end of 2018 at the earliest it seems and HEDT/Server look likely to be mid 2019(with the usual stagger between their platforms). The process is a normal one node drop with no large clock speed gains expected over it's life and a reduction to start with.
Glofo 7nm is a 1.5-2 node drop for AMD, it's going to take AMD from a 3Ghz process that is half a node or more behind Intel to a node that is just ahead of Intel, there is a massive improvement in clock speed as well as a very large gain in density. Basically AMD is fighting heavily on the back foot process node wise and has winning server, HEDT and better value and better in most situations but just lacking a little single thread performance. Starting at the end of 2018 AMD will have the slightly better process than Intel and maintain all the goodness that makes Zen so fucking awesome but it's only weakness, pure clock speed for pure single thread performance.... is going to be wiped out with the gap between AMD and Intel on clock speeds either removed or even swing the other way depending on just how good the process is.
Zen 2 is going to be seriously, seriously fucking awesome. Even a Zen 2 8 core would be awesome but there are indications we might be moving to 12 core mainstream, 24 core HEDT, 6 core APU and 48 core server(the latter we know is the case which implies all the others).
Zen 2 should bring actual IPC improvements as well though, in general a new architecture will find fairly big bottlenecks to fix where as something like Core architecture which has gone through so many iterations is going to find it much harder to find large gains. I wouldn't be surprised is aside from a bigger process and therefore bigger clock speed and power gains than Intel, if AMD also have bigger IPC gains from current to next gen architectures."

I think the chances are that Zen 2 will clock considerably higher. THe process is designed for 5Ghz, that doesn't mean Zen 2 will be. It would take fairly major changes to the pipeline for it to be clocked at 5Ghz as standard, but what I think it means is that the transistors themselves won't have trouble clocking much higher. So we might see more like a 8 core with 4Ghz base, 4.5Ghz boost clocks, but chips that can overclock to 5-5.2Ghz. If they come end of 2018 or mid 2019 doesn't much matter to me.
The reality is AMD is offering better value in mainstream now with an inferior process and a fairly hefty clock disadvantage. When the process gap is removed, when the clock disadvantage is gone, AMD will be even more competitive. Intel might have a 6 month lead in desktop/mainstream but nothing more than that.