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If we look back in time, a new Zen architecture has arrived reliably about once every two years, which puts the Zen 6 chips as being due in Late 2026 given Zen 5's mid to late 2024 launch and will likely remain on the AM5 platform. Engineering samples are said to be out for testing with up to a dozen cores per CCD. To up the ante a bit more, the 7GHz barrier may possibly be handled by Zen 6 as well.
If we look back in time, a new Zen architecture has arrived reliably about once every two years, which puts the Zen 6 chips as being due in Late 2026 given Zen 5's mid to late 2024 launch and will likely remain on the AM5 platform. Engineering samples are said to be out for testing with up to a dozen cores per CCD. To up the ante a bit more, the 7GHz barrier may possibly be handled by Zen 6 as well.
I absolutely don't expect SMT4, because at that point you start adding more resources prioritising SMT to the detriment of per-core performance. There's some utility as a licensing hack for software that is charged per core, rather than per thread, but that's a serious niche.