Although AMD’s Financial Analyst Day sounds incredibly dry, it released some interesting information for anyone following the red team’s chip manufacturing. AMD confirmed the plan for Zen 7 to follow Zen 6’s release next year, promised improved ray tracing and AI upscaling with its next-generation GPU, and even showed off a roadmap for its neural processing unit (NPU) developments.
AMD’s next-generation CPU designs will be based on Zen 6. Whether that means Ryzen 400 or Ryzen 10000 remains to be seen, but Zen 6 is the plan, and AMD is developing Zen 6c in parallel. Claiming it as the world’s first design to use a 2nm process node (referencing AMD’s earlier Epyc debut), AMD also talked up its AI capabilities. No core or clock news, but we do know it’ll improve AI data type support and add more AI pipelines—because what is an announcement in 2025 if it doesn’t include AI?
Zen 6 will be called “Olympic Ridge” for the desktop and “Medusa Point” for Ryzen mobile. Beyond that, Zen 7 is expected to launch sometime after 2026—probably in 2028—and will include a “New Matrix Engine,” as well as expand support for AI data formats.
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On the graphics front, AMD also talked up its RX 9000 GPUs, praising their 2nd-generation AI technologies, AI-optimized pipelines, and advanced ray tracing. It didn’t name what comes next, but the RDNA5/UDNA1 design is expected in the second half of 2026. It will reportedly further enhance AI and ray tracing, which is to be expected. AMD didn’t give any more information on the GPU’s capabilities for now.
Finally, AMD hyped up its NPU developments, promising future improvements on single-chip AI TOPS performance. These should eventually make it easier to run AI workloads locally without leveraging cloud processing.