A new rumor suggests that AMD has sped up the manufacturing of its 5nm-based Zen 4 CPUs which may land early in April, probably to better compete with Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake-S parts.
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AMD's Socket AM5 may re-use the same stock coolers that the company currently packages with the existing Ryzen processors on AM4. The information comes via a leak related to the next-gen socket.
A new report says that AMD's next-gen Socket AM5 is reportedly launching in the second quarter of 2022. The company will allegedly be moving away from the PGA package into LGA with this platform.
In a major shift, AMD's next-gen mainstream desktop socket AM5 is reportedly said to feature LGA packaging. That's not all there is to AM5 as it is also expected to introduce DDR5 memory support.