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James Bentley

It seems like AMD's Zen 6 LP CPU cores will be a mixture of architectures going all the way back to Zen 2

AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D processor.

As we reported last month, AMD is working on a low-power, compact range of Zen 6 CPUs, which should be perfect for inclusion in laptops and gaming handhelds. If you're wondering how it plans on doing that, it seems the answer is a collage of different Zen architectures from Zen 2 upwards combined.

As spotted by industry analyst InstLatX64 (via Wccftech), a Linux kernel patch from Vishal Badole, a member of AMD staff, notes that the low-power core is marked in CPUID. This designation, distinct from a regular Zen 'C' core, is necessary for the following reasons, according to the patch:

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