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Darren Allan

Price pressures in building PCs 'aren't going away anytime soon' warns AMD exec — but new budget CPU could be in the works

An AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D in a masculine hand.
  • AMD's David McAfee has hinted that a Ryzen 5 9600X3D could be in the cards for later this year
  • This follows the launch of the Ryzen 7 7700X3D as a response to pricing pressures
  • McAfee said that "we know the pressures that are there in building systems aren't going away anytime soon"

AMD appears to be considering making a new addition to the family of current-gen Zen 5 CPUs in the form of a wallet-friendly 3D V-Cache (X3D) processor.

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