AMD roadmap confirms tentative Zen 7, Medusa Point and Gorgon Point launch timelines

While AMD's Financial Analyst Day was primarily centered around, you guessed it, finances, Team Red revealed some information about its upcoming products. Zen 7 has finally arrived on AMD's official roadmap with a 'beyond 2026' release window. Unfortunately, the presentation is light on details, simply stating that Zen 7 will come with a new Matrix Engine.

Previous leaks by Moore's Law is Dead predicted Zen 7 would employ four different CPU cores, namely Classic, Dense, Efficiency and Low Power. It would leverage TSMC's cutting-edge A16 node and offer vastly more 3D V-cache compared to Zen 5. With a tentative launch window of 2028, there's no way to confirm said information until more leakers chime in.

In the near future, Zen 6 is expected to debut in 2026 with a mix of Zen 6 and Zen 6c cores. It will be the 'industry first' consumer-grade CPU to be manufactured on an unspecified TSMC 2 nm node. That information isn't strictly new and had been tacitly confirmed earlier this year, when AMD announced its upcoming Epyc server chip had already taped out on a TSMC N2 class node.

On the laptop side, AMD has addressed Medusa and Gorgon by name. The former is essentially laptop parts that leverage the Zen 6 architecture, while the latter is a mid-cycle refresh of existing Zen 5 parts.   Medusa is expected to include standard Medusa Point Ryzen AI parts and the Medusa Halo, the Ryzen AI Max-branded successor to the Strix Halo. However, Medusa isn't likely to arrive until 2027, so the only new AMD laptop SKUs to surface next year will be Zen 5-based Gorgon parts.

Information on the GPU front is scarce, with the slide simply acknowledging the next generation of GPUs without providing a tentative release window or hints of a mid-cycle refresh for existing RDNA 4 GPUs.