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AMD Maps Zen 7 ‘Gorgon’ and ‘Medusa’ for 2026–27, Rolls Out x86 AI and Security Standards With Intel

AMD told investors its roadmap now revolves around datacenter demand.

Overview

  • A Financial Analyst Day slide publicly named Zen 7 families as Gorgon and Medusa, with placements on AMD’s roadmap for 2026 and 2027.
  • AMD reiterated its chiplet strategy and its practice of pairing performance-focused and efficiency-focused cores in each Zen generation.
  • Early guidance covered a next Radeon desktop GPU family and NPU plans that target higher AI TOPS and improved energy efficiency without product-level specifics.
  • AMD and Intel announced ACE for standardized matrix multiplication on x86 and confirmed ChkTag memory tagging as a new cross‑vendor security feature.
  • Executives emphasized datacenter as the company’s strategic focus and majority revenue driver, with AMD outlining aggressive growth goals for Epyc and Instinct.