Welcome to the Tech Meam Right Home for Thursday, October 8th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough today. A bunch of new chip announcements from AMD.

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Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

The busy days for chip News continue apace.

A. M. has announced the Zen 3-Rison 5,000

CPUs for desktops, the first chips from AD using its next-gen Zen 3 architecture, quoting the

Verge.

AMD is setting expectations high, promising that the new Rison 5900 X is nothing short of quote the world's best

gaming CPU. The new chips will be available starting at $299 for the entry level

Rison 5 5500 X model on November 5th.

Like last year's Zen 2-based Horizon 3,000 desktop ships

these new models replace, the new 5,000 series processors are still using AMD's 7 nanometer process

but offer a 19% increase in instructions per cycle

along with a complete redesign of the chip layout

and a higher max boost speed.

The new chipsets are jumping straight to the Verizon 5000 series branding to avoid any confusion

with the new Zen 3 chips with the Zen 2-based Rison 4,000 desktop chips that Amd released over the summer for pre-built systems.

Altogether, Amd says that simply replacing a Zen 2 CPU with a comparable Zen 3 model.

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