Out with the old, in with the old: AMD's still selling Zen 2 and Zen 3+ processors, now under the guise of the Ryzen 10/100 series

A promotional image for the launch of AMD's Ryzen 6000 processors, showing a stylized shot of the die, against a digital-effect background.

It's said that a good thing never dies. Chip giant AMD certainly thinks so because earlier this month, it stealthily launched two new series of Ryzen processors. Except they're not exactly new, as the chips are simply old laptop-based ones from 2017 and 2022 that have been given a fresh lick of paint, new names, and the odd tweaked clock speed. That's not necessarily a bad thing, though.

Kicking off AMD's new-but-not-new CPUs is the very small Ryzen 10 series, comprising just two models (thanks to Olrak29_ on X for the heads-up). Despite one being a Ryzen 3 and the other a Ryzen 5, they're virtually identical, separated only by base and boost clock speeds.