| Bofferbrauer2 said: So AMD will sell Zen 2 and Zen 3 chips well into 2025? Zen 2 I can understand, Mendocino make reasonably good Athlon chips at this point (keep in mind the last ones were still on Zen+ and Athlons really don't need more than that) though really it's Ryzen 3 and especially Ryzen 5 versions are problematic. Keeping Rembrandt around as a budget option for this long is less okay. I would have been fine if they kept it for next year and kicking Barcelo-R from the lineup, but by the looks of it that will only happen in 2025. Maybe AMD was hoping more sales for this chip, but then again, they could have released a desktop version last year already if they got too many of them. |
It makes business sense.
It keeps the old fabs producing "good enough" chips that can be sold at a low price... Rather than cannibalize a new nodes limited production capacity with low-end, low-profit parts, especially as new nodes get more expensive.
It's the naming scheme that sucks as you can't differentiate at a glance.
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