AMD’s Consumer Roadmap 2026 is underwhelming
4nm will have a hard time competing with Intel 18A and TSMC 3nm.
Last week, AMD presented its AI, data center, and consumer plans for the next few years to financial and industry analysts. Despite the huge success in the data center market, partial success in AI, and a solid roadmap ahead, I wanted to share a shortcoming on the consumer roadmap, especially concerning 2026.
AMD plots Gorgon and Medusa to turn rivals to stone
Zen 5 refresh in 2026, Zen 6 in 2027, and a mysterious new GPU to bury RDNA
AMD has lifted the kimono on its next-gen client CPUs and GPUs, with new codenames straight out of Greek mythology.
AMD bets big on Zen 6 and MI400 as profits soar
Rides AI boom to record $9.2 billion quarter
AMD has just posted record-breaking results, with third-quarter revenue hitting $9.2 billion, up 36 per cent from the previous year and 20 per cent higher than last quarter.
Intel admits it has some desktop holes to fill
Arrow Lake refresh only a stopgap
Troubled Chipzilla has confirmed that a refresh of its Arrow Lake processors will limp out in 2026, with proper Nova Lake chips finally crawling out with the enthusiasm of a slug after a Hamburg rainfall later that year.
AMD’s next-gen EPYC CPUs could guzzle up to 1400W
Zen 6 monsters spark race for kilowatt-class cooling
AMD’s upcoming EPYC Venice chips, powered by the Zen 6 architecture and running on the new SP7 socket, look set to redefine power-hungry silicon by drawing as much as 1400W.
AMD’s Zen 6 boosts cores, sticks with evolution over overhaul
More silicon, same sockets, no dramatic redesigns
AMD’s next-gen Ryzen CPUs based on the Zen 6 architecture are already in the hands of engineers, with early details pointing to a refined, higher-core design rather than a ground-up rethink.
AMD’s RX 9060 pokes its head out
Vanilla RDNA 4 GPU spotted in AIDA64 ahead of official reveal
Looks like AMD’s budget-friendly RDNA 4 card is warming up in the wings. A new version of AIDA64 has tipped its hand by listing support for the Radeon RX 9060, a notch below the already-rumoured RX 9060 XT.
Zen 6 ‘Medusa’ brings memory shake-up to Ryzen
AMD’s new CPU architecture could flip DIMM slot rules on their head
The Chinese dark satanic rumour mills have manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that AMD’s upcoming Zen 6-based Ryzen CPUs—codenamed “Medusa”—will throw a spanner in the works for memory layouts, thanks to changes inside the Integrated Memory Controller (IMC).
Zen 6 Medusa Ridge processor leaked
Turns you to stone
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth leak that the Zen 6 Medusa Ridge processor will feature a 12-core Core Complex Die (CCD).