AMD’s Zen 5-based processors are set to launch in August

Mini-PC maker AOOSTAR has revealed data on some AMD products, including future ones Zen 5 based processors which would become the Ryzen 9000 series.

As for AMD’s future Zen 5-based processors, AOOSTAR says that these They should be launched on the market from August 2024 and hopes to implement them in some of its computer models in the coming months. This data can be a bit misleading considering where it comes from, as a mini-PC manufacturer could be referring to models aimed at notebooks, APUs with “powerful” integrated graphics, rather than desktop models. We remember that the desktop Ryzen 7000 has an integrated graphics card, but this is more of a spring to keep the device running in case the dedicated graphics card fails.

AOOSTAR hopes to launch its first mini-PC with the Strix Point series of processors, APUs with “powerful” integrated graphics, from October. This suggests that AMD would use the second half of 2024 to deploy all its artillery around Zen 5, although we’ll see what architectures the company eventually markets after seeing the strange and confusing mix it created with the Ryzen 7000 APU.

About another Strix Point APUs would implement Zen 5-based CPU cores, RDNA 3+ architecture for integrated graphics and XDNA 2 NPU which would offer triple the TOPS of Hawk Point. The standard Strix Points aim to use a monolithic design with up to twelve CPU cores and up to sixteen RDNA 3+ cores, while the high-end Strix Point Halo would also be monolithic but increase the cores to sixteen and forty respectively.

Motherboard manufacturers like GIGABYTE are starting to pave the way to support Zen 5 by reusing the AM5 socket. AMD tends to maintain the same policy socket across multiple processor generations, allowing the same motherboard to be reused for different Ryzen processor lines. On the other hand, we will see if the red giant finishes shaping OpenSIL, from which it promises to push a more open firmware, but we will see what the results will be when everything goes public.

Another alleged aspect of Zen 5 is that it would only be compatible with Windows 11 in the Microsoft operating system ecosystem (we assume that AMD will not prevent the use of Linux). This may be because artificial intelligence is one of the Redmond giant’s main bets for the future, and Windows 11 is currently directing most of its efforts in this regard. Of course, Microsoft is not alone, but it is accompanied by AMD, Intel, Qualcomm and OpenAI, among others.

We’ll see if AMD releases more data at Computex 2024. If the August 2024 date turns out to be true, the company should start announcing things to promote and generate buzz and buzz across networks.