AMD President and CEO Lisa Su confirmed last Sunday that the company will launch its new generation of Ryzen 4000 series processors in early 2020. It begins with the next generation of Ryzen 4000 Series notebook processors, which AMD will showcase at CES next January with a host of new notebooks.
Remember, AMD APU processors are a generation behind all other desktop processors. This means that Ryzen 3000 for laptops is based on Zen+ 12 nm and not Zen 2 7 nm. With Ryzen 4000 for laptops, these chips become Zen 2 with a 7 nm node.
By the way, the Zen 4 and Zen 5 architectures are developed by two separate but constantly communicating design teams to secure the future of AMD Ryzen CPUs.
Warning for Intel! AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 are already under development! However, the Zen 3 architecture (Ryzen 4000) is less than a year away.
So this is the first time AMD has released the official announcement of the Zen 5 architecture, one of the next steps, an architecture designed and built by legendary Jim Keller, who is now a curious Intel employee.
What AMD Ryzen 4000 will offer?
This follows what the company did in 2019, first introducing its Ryzen 3000 Series notebook parts in January in time for the annual OEM update cycle, and then its new generation Ryzen 3000 Series based on 7nm Zen 2 for desktop computers.
Based on a recently published company roadmap, the Ryzen 4000 Series desktops are expected to be launched in summer 2020 and the Milan server family will land a few months later, in the second half of the year.
According to rumors, Ryzen 4000 will offer an 8% increase in IPC performance based on Zen 3 and a 200Mhz higher clock frequency. We will keep you up to date.