NO, that is the beginning of 2022...
ed: and I agree that now, AMD will push it back because they are going to continue to milk rdna2 and refine it. Since everyone of them made, will be sold instantly.
NO, they are not vague. Since Dr Su has been using such roadmaps, their placements, have been spot on. If we had not gone through a pandemic, AMD would be releasing rdna3 around December this year. Many things have changed and we know AMD's roadmap with rdna3 has changed too, given the rumors and obvious business objectives.
Dr Su is saying, they were projecting rdna3 to be out, before 2022. This was AMD's latest roadmap:
No it's not. AMD has explicitly stated that the years on their roadmaps include the whole year in both ends.
In this case those roadmaps are from beginning of 2019 to end of 2022.