It’s hard to believe that AMD released its very first Ryzen CPUs as recently as 2017. They were based on a new Zen architecture, built from the ground up in the five years prior to release. Looking back, this was a defining moment for AMD, and the future of laptop and desktop chips more widely.
In the five years since, we’ve seen six generations of Ryzen chips and three subsequent Zen architectures. The latest of these is the Ryzen 6000 Series, which uses a tweaked version of the existing architecture known as Zen 3+.
But AMD confirmed it was working on the next-gen Zen 4 architecture back in 2020, and it’s set to arrive before the end of 2022.
AMD Zen 4 release date
At the Zen 3 reveal in October 2020, AMD Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster confirmed that Zen 4 was “on track, in design”. His presentation was accompanied by the following timeline:
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Our next official update came in July 2021, when AMD CEO Lisa Su confirmed that Zen 4 was on track to launch the following. At CES in January 2022, the company was a little more specific – the second half of 2022 is the target.
Following the reveal of an official roadmap, that timeframe is looking likely:
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That was then reiterated at Computex 2022, with the company announcing that we’d begin seeing Zen 4-equipped Ryzen 7000 series processors as soon as Q3 2022, but again, no solid release date was given.
A specific release date remains unclear then, but Twitter leaker @Broly_X1 said Zen 4 could be announced in September 2022, with availability a month later. However, the tweet has now been deleted.
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