AMD plans to postpone Zen 3 to 2021? [Updated]

Update

As could be expected, the company learned of these rumors and immediately wanted to deny them in a categorical and official way. Zen 3 architecture and the processors based on it are expected by the end of 2020, as originally planned by the colossal Sunnyvale; therefore, no delay should be made, either because of delays in production or because of an alleged desire by AMD to slow down the pace, thanks to the limited competition currently offered by the market.

Original article

Previous rumors marked the hypothetical release of future Zen 3-based AMD CPUs around September this year. Apparently, however, something has changed the general plans: at the moment the cause would seem to be the lack of competition on the current market.

The news comes to us from the portal digitimes, a very reliable source, which in fact reports as AMD via the "lack of competition" could postpone the presentation of the Zen 3 CPUs in January 2021. Precisely it could do so at the next CES 2021. We specify that, despite the provenance, it is a rumor therefore take the following information with due caution.

The photograph of the current situation shows the Sunnyvale manufacturer at + 85% in the market share on the European front. An important result if we also think that the motherboards based on B550 and A520 Chipsets have yet to be launched on the market, chipsets that will certainly strengthen AMD's market share due to the further push they will give to the current generation of processors. To complete the picture, even the future low-end APU, codenamed "Renoir".

Intel in the meantime, as we have reported to you in recent weeks, may not even be able to bring its future 14nm Rocket Lake-S desktop CPU later this year.

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AMD, and will continue to beneficiale for a little of time the current generation of processors, having regard to the market trend positive. Market that counter has not favoured the Team in Blue, with the sales of the processors of the tenth generation is not able to scare the direct opposing. To support the slip for the future processors Ryzen 4000 there is also the marketing move made with the processors, 3000XT, which should make several improvements, including the increase of the frequencies, so to compete even more with the performance of single-core of Intel.

Back on the next generation of desktop processors based on the architecture of Zen 3, we know that the family Ryzen 4000 will use the node production at 7nm EUV of TSMC . Always from the portal to the chinese, however, someone advances a hypothesis that would see AMD to replace the production process, jumping directly to the 5nm EUV . Intel in the meantime, only at the end of 2021 will bring in trade processors Alder Lake with technology to 10 nanometers.

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