DigiTimes: Ryzen 4000 desktop processors on 5nm+ process will appear at the end of 2020

According to a rumor from Taiwanese DigiTimes, AMD has decided to manufacture its upcoming desktop processors in the Ryzen 4000 line in an improved 5nm instead of a 7nm process. The processors would appear in late 2020 or early 2021.

AMD would be the first customer for N5P, or TSMC’s 5nm+ production process, with its Ryzen 4000 desktop processors, DigiTimes claims. The Taiwanese newspaper has proven to have good resources within the tech sector in the Asian country, but is also sometimes wrong with rumors. TSMC has been making 5nm processors since April and would like to start mass production based on an improved 5nm process in the fourth quarter of this year. AMD would therefore like to release its Ryzen 4000 desktop processors in late 2020 or early 2021, according to the message shared on Twitter. by chiakokhua and has been picked up by VideoCardz, among others.

AMD would like to announce Ryzen 4000 around September or October. Originally, according to its roadmap, AMD planned to produce the generation at 7nm+. The switch to a smaller production process opens the way to more economical operation, higher performance or a combination of both. For example, according to WikiChip, TSMC claims that its improved 5nm process enables 7 percent higher performance at the same consumption versus its first 5nm generation, and 5nm chips could in turn perform up to 15 percent better than equivalent 7nm chips. WikiChip will not launch TSMC’s N5P until early 2021.

The Ryzen 4000 line is codenamed Vermeer and built around Zen 3 cores. Zen 3 will appear at the end of 2020, AMD already announced, without clarifying whether it concerns Ryzen chips. The rumor is striking because processor manufacturers are usually the first to produce laptop processors on a new process, because they are less complex than desktop variants. That reports AMD CEO Lisa Su herself too.