The Future of AMD Ryzen APUs & The AM5 Platform: 6nm Rembrandt & 4nm Phoenix Imminent?

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AMD's AM5 platform has had its head start with a trio of Ryzen 7000 CPU families based on the Zen 4 core architecture but looking forward, we want to know what else the red team has in plans for its AM5 platform, especially the APU side of things.

The last AMD Ryzen APUs for the desktop segment were launched all the way back in the summer of 2021. These were the Ryzen 5000G series products based on the Zen 3 core architecture along with the Vega graphics core. Since then, AMD has introduced its Ryzen 6000 and Ryzen 7000 APUs for laptops which feature up to Zen 4 core architecture and the brand new RDNA 3 graphics arch.

So while the company has released many Ryzen CPU options for its AM4 and AM5 platforms during the 2021-2023 timeframe, the AMD desktop APU lineup seems to be put on hold. But we can make sense of what's going on and why this is the way it is right now. Back when AM4 was introduced, it was first released in the OEM segment and the first lineup to utilize it was the Bristol Ridge family.

The AMD Bristol Ridge family didn't utilize the brand-new Zen cores but instead relied on the older Excavator cores (a revision of the Bulldozer cores). These APUs did support the newer DDR4 DRAM standard which was new at the time for the AMD AM4 platform & it was some time before we got to see the proper Zen-based Ryzen APU options in the market.

Now based on information within the Gigabyte leak from a few years back (discovered by HXL), it looks like AMD may follow a similar strategy for its AM5 Desktop APU lineup. Within the feature compatibility table, three families of AMD's AM5 processors are listed. We know that the Family 19H (Model 60h-6Fh) is the Ryzen 7000 "Raphael" lineup which has received the X, Non-X & X3D