The first official reference to the 'AMD Ryzen 9000 series' gives Zen 5 a name and hints at an imminent release date

We've suspected AMD's Granite Ridge family of Zen 5 based processors might show their faces soon, given that AMD has already said it's aiming for a launch in the second half of this year, and CEOon June 3. Now Gigabyte has released a BIOS update for several of its AM5 series of motherboards in anticipation of the new chips, and it seems to confirm that they'll be called the AMD Ryzen 9000 series.

After months of speculation it seems like next generation CPUs from both the major players in the desktop chip market are incoming, which means we're not far from seeing AMD and Intel go head to head with some new silicon once again. Now Zen 5 has a name, hopefully it wont be long until we see an announcement, and hopefully some performance uplifts to write home about.

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