No, HP didnt just leak the AMD Ryzen 7000 series

Date:
Mon, 11 Oct 2021 09:55:41 +0000

Description:
AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs have turned up in an HP PC listing but dont get excited about this leak.

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AMD could have Ryzen 7000 processors waiting in the wings, according to the latest from the rumor mill but were not so sure, and this leak, which comes from HP ( once again ), is likely to be a listing error of some kind.

The full story here is that as @momomo_us highlighted on Twitter (via
Wccftech ), HP has put up a product listing for future all-in-one PCs which will use either Intels incoming Alder Lake chips, or the AMD Ryzen 7000 series. 12 Gen Intel & AMD Ryzen 7000 pic.twitter.com/1NcpMMOT2f October 9, 2021 See more

Obviously thats pretty odd, because as likely wont have escaped your attention, AMDs current processors are Ryzen 5000 models, so logically the next in line is the Ryzen 6000 range and here the company appears to be looking to skip straight to Ryzen 7000. These are the best AMD GPUs you can buy today We'll show you how to build a PC And here are the best motherboards

Why would this happen? Thats unclear, but the argument, or at least suggestion, is that AMD might just have APUs from the Ryzen 7000 family ready to roll (the 24-inch and 27-inch all-in-ones or AIOs are coming soon
according to the listing).

As these are AIOs, they would be running an APU (CPU plus graphics) presumably Rembrandt based on Zen 3+ in theory rather than actual Zen 4 desktop chips (Vermeer). Zen 4 is still a long way out, of course, as
next-gen desktop CPUs wont be here until the end of 2022 . (Before that, well get a refresh of current Ryzen processors making use of 3D V-Cache tech early next year). Analysis: The curious case of the SSE

Not only does it seem plain unlikely that AMD would skip Ryzen 6000, there
are other reasons why this particular leak seems seriously iffy, and more likely to be a listing mistake than anything else.

HPs other product listings for desktop computers and AIOs refer to Ryzen 5 processors, and Ryzen 9, so it seems like the possibility here is that the listing should read Ryzen 7, and someone has accidentally labeled it as Ryzen 7000.

That possibility is backed up by the fact that there is another mistake in
the listing, as the SSD is called an SSE, and if that level of carelessness
is anything to go by, its easy to imagine another error happening. Even
though this sort of thing really shouldnt get through on a big companys official website.

We cant totally rule out the possibility that there is a grain of truth here, though. HP does have a history of leaking hardware before its released, and its not unthinkable for AMD to skip to Ryzen 7000 somehow that just really doesnt seem likely, and were not buying it. Check out the best PC games



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