Zen 4 Is AMD's Shiny New CPU Architecture But Devs Are Already Looking To Zen 5
If you're a hardware enthusiast, then surely HWiNFO needs absolutely no introduction. This invaluable utility, as its name would suggest, scans a system's hardware details and then provides a comprehensive report on both the components in the system as well as their various states. It can even function as a hardware monitoring tool.
In the "Upcoming Changes" for HWiNFO's latest version, there's a curious update note: "Added early support of some AMD Zen5 families." To be honest, this probably just means that the next version of the software will be able to report processors based on Zen 5 as "AMD Zen 5" (or whatever model number) rather than simply saying "Unknown AMD CPU."
We haven't heard a peep from AMD about Zen 5 besides that it's in development, but it probably won't be more than a few months before we start seeing benchmark leaks. We've already seen a few leaks about Zen 5, including that it will supposedly be fabricated on TSMC's 3nm process despite the fact that Intel and Apple are supposedly tying up the foundry's capacity on that process.
Whatever ends up being the reality for Zen 5, at least we know that we'll be able to peek under the hood of such systems with free utilities like HWiNFO.
