AMD Ryzen Zen 4 Phoenix Point 8-Core Mobile CPU Spotted In The Wild
We have another such leak today, and it's over at Rensselaer Polytechnic's MilkyWay@Home project. This is a distributed computing platform based on BOINC that is attempting to create an accurate 3D simulation of the entire Milky Way galaxy. While that's the stated goal of the project, it's really more about developing and improving resililent and fault-tolerant algorithms for internet-based distributed computing.
You may recall that way back in February of last year, developer Patrick Schur leaked the model names and CPUID values for AMD's first two Zen 4-based processors. Well as it happens, the CPUID value that he gave for Phoenix happens to correspond with the family, model, and stepping values given for the "AMD Eng Sample" processors. The BOINC entry also lists 16 processors, which would line up perfectly with an 8-core-with-SMT Phoenix Point mobile chip.
Given that we're seeing this kind of leak of this new CPU, these chips can't be too far out from release. Barring the discovery of some major hardware errata, we'd estimate that we'll see Phoenix Point laptops early next year, but it's not impossible that AMD could hurry things along and get the chips out in Q4 of this year.