AMD’s next-gen Zen 6-based ‘Medusa’ CPU rumors: 2025 teased, some packaging tech from MI450 GPU [Video]

AMD is about to launch its next-generation Zen 5 CPU architecture inside of Ryzen AI 300 series “Strix Point” APUs and Ryzen 9000 series “Granite Ridge” desktop CPUs… while we’ve got some juicy new details on the future-gen Zen 6 “Medusa” CPUs.

In a new video from leaker Moore’s Law is Dead, we’re hearing new rumors about Zen 6 “Medusa” CPUs and it looks like it’s possible they’ll tape out by Q2 2025, which isn’t far away at all now, with production to follow “before the end of the year” according to MLID’s first source. This source added that if things go well, production would begin by the end of 2025, but “it could slip” into 2026.

This source also teased that AMD’s next-gen Zen 6 “Medusa” products could use the same packaging technology as AMD’s next-gen Instinct MI450 AI accelerator, which we have been hearing rumors about lately. Another …