AMD engineer confirms 3nm Zen 5 CPUs and 2nm for Zen 6

Some juicy details have recently surfaced about AMD's upcoming Zen architectures, straight from the LinkedIn profile of one of their engineers. This content has since been removed, but as expected from the Internet, someone was fast enough to take a screenshot.

According to the engineer's profile (via Wccftech), he was heavily involved in power management projects for Zen 4, Zen 5, and Zen 6 architectures. Zen 4, codenamed “Persephone,” is widely available through Ryzen 7000 series CPUs. Zen 5, also known as “Nirvana”, should come next, but probably only next year. As for Zen 6, we don't expect to see these CPUs until late 2025 at least.

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As per its description of each project, the Zen 5-based server processors (EPYC) will be based on the 3nm process. However, there will also be Zen 5 chips based on the 4nm process node, as AMD showed on its latest CPU core roadmap. As of now, we know that there will be at least three variants: Zen 5, Zen 5X3D, and Zen 5c.

Moving on to Zen 6, the engineer's job experience claims that the upcoming CPU core architecture will use the 2nm process node. The work experience related to Zen 6 was apparently from January 2023, suggesting AMD is already developing the Zen 5 successor.

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KitGuru says: As expected, Zen 6 will probably bring another process node reduction. However, as the process node gets smaller, one can only wonder: how far are we from reaching the limit?

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