AMD’s next-generation Zen 4 Ryzen desktop CPUs might not launch until late 2022, almost a year after the debut of Intel’s 12th-generation Alder Lake lineup.

That’s according to Twitter tipster Sepeuwmjh, who suggests AMD’s Zen 4 processors, codenamed ‘Raphael’, will be announced in September or October of 2022, with a release scheduled a month or two later.

That means AMD Zen 4 could arrive two full years after the launch of the Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 desktop CPUs, and almost a year after Intel debuts its much-hyped Alder Lake desktop processor lineup.
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