AMD might have only just launched its new Ryzen 9 9950X3D high-end gaming and productivity chip, but we're already starting to hear rumors of the next generation. The future Ryzen 10000 CPUs, based on a future Zen 6 architecture,

"The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is extremely powerful in games, which makes it easier to recommend than other recent processors like the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K or Ryzen 9 9900X. Especially if you’re building a rig with a powerful graphics card, the 9800X3D is going to be the best way to get the most performance out of whichever GPU you pair it with."

AMD processors, from Zen 1 all the way to Zen 4, are carrying a major vulnerability that allows threat actors to push microcode updates on affected chips. This is according to researchers from Google, who also released a tool to install the updates, or “jailbreak” the device.