AMD Offers Details on Next-Gen CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs

Although AMD's Financial Analyst Day sounds incredibly dry, it released some interesting information for anyone following the red team's chip manufacturing. AMD confirmed the plan for Zen 7 to follow Zen 6's release next year, promised improved ray tracing and AI upscaling with its next-generation GPU, and even showed off a roadmap for its neural processing unit (NPU) developments.

AMD's next-generation CPU designs will be based on Zen 6. Whether that means Ryzen 400 or Ryzen 10000 remains to be seen, but Zen 6 is the plan, and AMD is developing Zen 6c in parallel. Claiming it as the world's first design to use a 2nm process node (referencing AMD's earlier Epyc debut), AMD also talked up its AI capabilities. No core or clock news, but we do know it'll improve AI data type support and add more AI pipelines—because what is ...