AMD has reaffirmed its plans to introduce the next-generation Zen 3 CPU family codenamed Ryzen 4000 'Vermeer' later this year. The latest statement comes from AMD's Executive Vice President of Computing and Graphics, Rick Bergman, who states that the next-gen lineup is going to set a new bar in high-performance computing.

AMD To Continue Its High-Performance Journey With Zen 3 Powered Ryzen 4000 'Vermeer' Desktop CPUs, Launching Later This Year

The AMD Ryzen 4000 Desktop CPU family is one of the most highly anticipated CPU launches of 2020. There's a lot of reasons to be excited for the next-generation family but the main one is no doubt the addition of the 7nm+ Zen 3 cores which are expected to deliver huge gains in IPC and performance efficiency. In his statement on the AMD Corporate Blog, Rick Bergman says that AMD will continue its high-performance journey with Zen 3 based client processors and that we haven't seen the best of them yet.

So, what’s next for AMD in the PC space? Well, I cannot share too much, but I can say our high-performance journey continues with our first “Zen 3” Client processor on-track to launch later this year. I will wrap by saying you haven’t seen the best of us yet…

Rick Bergman is Executive Vice President of Computing & Graphics at AMD.

The Ryzen platform has been disrupting the CPU market ever since its introduction back in 2017 & since then, we've only seen each Ryzen successor getting better and better. The Zen 3 based Ryzen 4000 CPUs are expected to continue this trend but based on the quote from Rick, it looks like AMD might have a big surprise with Zen 3 for consumers. Do notice how AMD mentions Zen 3 client CPU which is for the consumer-centric platform. AMD will be shipping its Zen 3 based 3rd Gen EPYC Milan CPUs to partners and customers this year too but its the Ryzen 4000 Desktop lineup which will hit the retail shelves first.

AMD Ryzen 4000 'Vermeer' CPUs will be utilizing the next-gen 7nm+ Zen 3 core architecture.

AMD already has the first Zen 3 CPUs running in their test labs as revealed by AMD's CEO, Lisa Su, earlier this month and according to Lisa, the architecture is looking great. As for the surprise, it can be anything, a big IPC jump, more cores, higher clock speeds, much better performance per watt, or it could be all of them.

With that said, one can look forward to another major disruption in the CPU segment which will best the Ryzen 3000 'Matisse' CPU lineup in all possible ways. This should be enough of a reason to get enthusiasts and desktop consumers to be excited for AMD's next big CPU architecture and CPU family launch.

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