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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).