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Andy Edser

The first official reference to the 'AMD Ryzen 9000 series' gives Zen 5 a name and hints at an imminent release date

Generic product image of an AMD Ryzen CPU, against a stylised background.

We've suspected AMD's Granite Ridge family of Zen 5 based processors might show their faces soon, given that AMD has already said it's aiming for a launch in the second half of this year, and CEO Dr. Lisa Su is set to deliver the Computex keynote on June 3. Now Gigabyte has released a BIOS update for several of its AM5 series of motherboards in anticipation of the new chips, and it seems to confirm that they'll be called the AMD Ryzen 9000 series.

In a news post on the company website, the Gigabyte AM5 X670, B650 and A620 motherboards are confirmed to receive boot up support for "the coming AMD Ryzen™ 9000 series", with the most recent AGESA 1.1.7.0 beta BIOS. 

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