AMD is hoping to discourage would-be upgraders by letting them know the X3D version of Zen 5 is coming soon. If that's not enough sand being kicked in Intel's direction, it's also lowering prices on all of its Zen 5 CPUs as part of a holiday promotion,

With Zen 5 X3D arriving in a few weeks you can save up to $50 off the current non-X3D AMD Ryzen 9000 Series CPU line-up - from the 9600X up to the 9950X.

We already suspected this, but things took a turn when the company revealed the final name of its "Strix Point" SoCs earlier this year: the Ryzen AI 300 family, headed up by the flagship Ryzen AI 9 HX 375.

AMD is officially announcing its first next-generation X3D desktop processors today, based on its latest Zen 5 architecture. I’d love to tell you which Ryzen 9000-series X3D chips are arriving next month,

It may not be Black Friday, or even some version of Amazon’s Prime Day, but AMD is having a sale anyway: the company is taking up to $50 off its top Ryzen processors, just because. AMD is also confirming that next-gen Ryzen 9000 X3D parts are en route and scheduled for November 7,