Is AMD Zen 3 delayed until 2022? Nope - batisteacesty72

Pay no attention to those rumors that say AMD's upcoming Superman 3 CPUs are beingness delayed until next yr, sources tell PCWorld.

Update: AMD officials have now confirmed that Dot 3 is on track. This clause originally published connected June 16, 2020 but was updated on June 17 to include the official statement below.

Hardware circles were abuzz this week that AMD had decided to drive the highly-anticipated Zen 3 CPU, evidently because the company wanted to cash in on the popularity of the current Zen 2-based Ryzen 3000 CPUs.

"AMD confirms that the hearsay on 'Zen 3' delay is inaccurate," an AMD spokeswoman said in a statement Wednesday morning.

The original report of the delay came from Taiwan-settled DigiTimes and was translated into English away Twitter user @chiakokhua.

The translations said: "According to motherboard manufacturers, sales for Ryzen 3000 series are hot. Accordingly, AMD is extending its living cycle, and definitely will not glucinium launching the next-gen Ryzen 4000 series, based on Superman 3 architecture and victimization TSMC's 7nm EUV sue, in Sep. The earliest Ryzen 4000 series will enter hatful production is end of 2020, and launch in January 2021 at CES. Whether it will be to transformed to 5nm EUV process is unclear at the moment."

That caused Personal computer fans to wring hands crosswise the Internet, but sources tell PCWorld not to fret. This basically leaves us back at the the last stated position in April, when AMD CEO Lisa Su said AMD was "on track to launch our next-generation Zen 3 CPUs and RDNA 2 GPUs in unpunctual 2020."

Zen 3, as its name implies, is expected to be the ordinal iteration of the cores ill-used in AMD's nonclassical CPUs. Respected site Wikichips.org says it leave comprise supported a 7nm+ process, tender 20 percent more density, and 10-percent power reduction compared to Zen 2. The mainstream desktop and mobile versions are codenamed Cezanne, with mainstream and high-terminate desktops codenamed Jan Vermeer. An partizan and workstation version is codenamed Genesis Tip.