Zen 6

Zen 6 ("Morpheus") is the name for an upcoming CPU microarchitecture from AMD, shown on their roadmap in July 2024. It is the successor to Zen 5 and is believed to use TSMC's 6 nm and 2 nm processes. Desktop processors will be codenamed "Olympic Ridge", expected to be released under the Ryzen 10000 name, the Ryzen Threadripper (HEDT or Workstation) processors are codenamed "Mustang Peak", while Epyc server processors will be codenamed "Venice", "Venice-X", "Venice LP" & "Verano". The mobile processors include several lineup codenames: "Bumblebee" at the low-end, "Medusa Point" for the mainstream lineup, "Medusa Halo" represents a high-end APU with a large iGPU, and "Gator Range" providing the highest mobile performance. Zen 6 is expected to release in late 2026 to early 2027. It is expected that each Core Complex Die (CCD) will contain up to 12 cores each, enabling a maximum of 24 cores (48 threads) for consumer platform chips and 256 cores (512 threads) on server platform chips. Zen 6 is expected to integrate a neural processing unit (NPU) in processors for both desktop and laptop models. The architecture is confirmed to introduce new instruction extensions, including AVX512_BMM, AVX_NE_CONVERT, AVX_IFMA, AVX_VNNI_INT8, and AVX512_FP16. It is also expected that Zen 6 will be the first platform supporting Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED).