On August 25, AMD is scheduled to provide a “Zen 5” microarchitecture deep dive at the Hot Chips 2024 conference. It is yet unclear whether the in-depth analysis comes before or after the company’s well anticipated June 3 2024 Computex keynote, when it is expected to either reveal or introduce its next-generation processors built on the design. In any case, the product launch pre-briefs we receive are usually far less extensive than the Hot Chips lectures, so we expect to learn a great deal more about the architecture.

Much depends on “Zen 5″‘s sustained success in delivering a double-digit percentage IPC improvement over its predecessor, adding new capabilities at the microarchitecture level, and utilizing TSMC’s new foundry techniques to provide Intel with competitive processors. Though AMD continues to produce traditional multicore processors, it refuses to label even the chips that include ordinary and high-density versions of its “Zen 4” cores as “hybrid.” In contrast, Intel has integrated hybrid CPU cores across its product stack.