About a year ago, I got word that AMD was preparing a next-generation CPU architecture that could provide some real competition to Intel and not just be “good enough.” Now further details have leaked that, if true, indicate this will be quite a CPU.

According to the gaming and hardware blog Fudzilla, the core architecture is codenamed Zen and it will make up the next generation of AMD CPUs. The site obtained a slide of what is said to be information on the highest-end part, but did not specify if this is a desktop or server part. My money would be on a server part, because for a desktop, this is downright overkill.

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