AMD’s Zen 3-Based Ryzen 4000 CPUs Will Reportedly Be Built on TSMC’s 5 Nm+ Process

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Contradicting red team’s well-established CPU roadmap, DigiTimes has published a report claiming that AMD’s upcoming generation of Ryzen 4000-series processors will be built on TSMC’s cutting-edge 5 nm+ node, and not its 7 nm process as originally planned. This is a little difficult to believe, being that 5 nm capacity is already tight and radical changes like these can’t happen on a whim, but here’s a translation of the story for those who are curious, courtesy of @chiakokhua.



DigiTimes Report on 2020.05.28: pic.twitter.com/50vuxqUrAi— RetiredEngineer® (@chiakokhua) May 28, 2020



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[Riccochet]

Zen 3 looking better and better

 

[Zarathustra]

Exciting!

I just hope this doesn't negatively impact clock speeds too much, or if it does, that we see a corresponding better improvement in performance per clock.