AMD says Zen 5 is “in the design phase,” hinting at an Intel Tick-Tock-like model

AMD’s Mark Papermaster has announced that his leap-frogging design teams are hard at work in the design phase of the AMD Zen 5 CPU architecture. Yeah, ZEN FREAKING FIVE. AMD doesn’t mess around. Not anymore. We’re only just getting to grips with its Zen 2 processors - some of the best CPUs for gaming ever made - with the 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X due to land on our desktops next month, and Threadripper set to tear up the high-end desktop market, yet AMD is already talking about chip designs only set for release many, many years in the future. To be fair, The Papermaster hasn’t actually divulged a huge amount of information about Zen 5, basically only confirming that its basic design is being worked on right now, but I wonder if the fact that Zen 4 and 5 are being mentioned in the same breath tells us anything at all. Possibly not, but it could hint at the two being very closely linked. I’m thinking much in the same way as Zen+ is to the original Zen processor design, a potential half-step. Something akin to Intel’s long-gone Tick Tock process.
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