Jennie Kim, Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 A purported AMD engineer's LinkedIn profile has exposed the codename and process node for AMD's distant Zen 6 processors. Zen 5, which should hit the market by 2024, is the next microarchitecture up to bat, so there's still a long way to go before we see any glimpse of Zen 6. The new information comes courtesy of Md Zaheer(opens in new tab), who appears to be a senior silicon design engineer at AMD that has worked on the power management aspect of Zen 4, Zen 5, and Zen 6 processors. The person has since disguised the names of the AMD projects he has worked on, but Twitter user Maraux David(opens in new tab) took a screenshot of the original description before the changes. Admittedly, it's not a big blunder since AMD has already revealed some details about Zen 5. However, it does provide some information on Zen 6.You won't find Zen 6 on any official AMD roadmaps, as the chipmaker has only shared its plans for up to Zen 5. The last roadmap, which dates back to June 2022, showed that AMD expects to launch Zen 5 in 2024. Therefore, Zen 6 likely won't reach the retail market until 2025, if not later. According to Zaheer, who started to work on Zen 6 at the start of 2023, the internal codename for AMD's Zen 6 cores is Morpheus. The author didn't share the codename of the CCD (core complex die), though. Zen 6 chips reportedly leverage the 2nm manufacturing process. However, we aren't sure if AMD will continue to tap TSMC for CCD production or jump ship to Samsung. Both TSMC and Samsung expect to have their 2nm process nodes ready by 2025. https://www.tomshardware.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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