“You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” Per a new leak stemming from the LinkedIn profile of Md Zaheer, an AMD engineer, red team is developing new Zen 5 and Zen 6 processors, and while that news alone might be of little surprise, it can reveal that AMD has decided to give them the code names of “Nirvana” and “Morpheus,” respectively. The leak also suggests that Zen 5 processors will be built on a 3-nanometer process, while Zen 6 processors will be built on a 2-nanometer process. AMD hasn’t released any road maps that include Zen 6 yet, but with Zen 5 not releasing until 2024, they are unlikely to surface until the second half of 2025 or later. (Zaheer appears to have scrubbed the information from his profile, and while Twitter user @davideneco25320 managed to capture it in time, that, too, has apparently been removed.)
From a LinkedIn profile:
Morpheus(Zen6)
Jan 2023
Power Management project based on Zen6(2nm) processor for servers. The AVFS IP deals with Adaptive Voltage and Frequency Scaling techniques in power management domain. PSM deals with Power Supply Monitor in the SOC. Verification at both IP, CORE level.
Nirvana(Zen5)
Jan 2021 – Dec 2022
Power Management project based on Zen5(3nm) processor for servers. The AVFS_TRO IP deals with Adaptive Voltage and Frequency Scaling techniques and Thermal measurement in power management domain. Verification at both IP, CORE level.
Persephone(Zen4)
Mar 2020 – Dec 2020
Power Management project based on Zen4(5nm) processor for servers. The PSM IP deals with Power Supply Monitor technique in power management domain. Verification at both IP, CORE level.
