It seems that Intel is not going to be left alone when it comes to recycling old architectures into next-generation processors, since we have recently learned that amd plans to make a similar move with his Ryzen 7000 aimed at laptops and small devices, which will be based on the architectures Raphael (Zen 4), Barcelo (Zen 3) and Mendocino (Zen 2).
The news began to spread after the Ryzen 5 7530U was shown through the SiSoftware website along with ASRock’s new series of industrial mini-PCs that will reportedly receive an APU upgrade employing AMD’s Ryzen 7000 series. The mentioned processor model will employ Zen 3 or Zen 3+ as an architecture, confirming that Ryzen 7000 processors geared towards laptops and small devices will employ a variety of different architectures.
Another model of the future generation of AMD APUs is the Ryzen 5 7630Uwith 6 cores, 12 threads and a presumed base clock speed of 2.0 GHz. The 512KB per core level 2 (L2) cache and 16MB total level 3 (L3) cache make it clear that in the background it is a processor that uses Zen 3 or Zen 3+.
An official slide also mentions Rembrandt Refresh (ie a reuse of the Ryzen 6000 generation APU architecture), but so far no leaks have been seen from that alleged front. So far there is evidence of the existence of Four low-power Ryzen 7000 generation APU models (between 15 and 28 watts) that will use different architectures for both processor and graphicsso we meet again with a Vega technology that in the opinion of more than one is asking for retirement.
As a curiosity, and if the models for desktops and laptops are counted, Ryzen 7000 will be the first generation of said line of processors that will use three different architectures. This smacks of a ruse on AMD’s part to get rid of accumulated material, which can also end up causing quite a bit of confusion among less knowledgeable consumers.
