If you’ve been looking longingly at the potent AI capabilities and amazing power efficiency of Intel’s Core Series 3 processors and wishing you could have one of those parts on the desktop, then fret no longer, because Minisforum’s new MS-03 Local AI Edge Workstation is exactly that: a desktop machine with socketed RAM and a PCIe x16 slot

Well, it’s confirmed: Zen 6 is a go, and it’s happening this month. In fact, it’s happening in less than two weeks, as AMD CTO Mark Papermaster just confirmed to SiliconAngle’s TheCube podcast at RAISE Summit 2026 that the new chips will be launching at AMD’s Advancing AI event starting July 22nd. Specifically, what Papermaster said was this:

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