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AMD’s Ryzen 5 5500F Lands on Ten-Year-Old AM4

CPU package cutaway showing six silicon dies under the lid with AMD-red rim light; headline AM4 TURNS TEN A NEW SIX-CORE ARRIVES

AMD's cheapest new six-core is an AM4 part arriving ten years after the socket, and its spec sheet lists Vermeer silicon with Cezanne cache. The Ryzen 5 7500 bolts two RDNA 2 compute units onto the 7500F, and Gorgon Halo gets its first laptop design.

Saeid Yazdani
September 12, 2026

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An Unnamed x86 CPU Has Run Legacy-Free for a Year

Three stacked slabs for the operating modes an x86-64 CPU normally provides. Legacy Mode and Compatibility Mode are drawn hollow and crossed out at the bottom because the implementation described on the Linux kernel mailing list removes both, and 64-bit mode is filled in blue at the top because it is the only mode kept.

A request to document 64-bit-only behaviour for the Linux kernel describes an x86 part that dropped the modes Intel decided to keep, and says it has been in service for over a year.

Saeid Yazdani
September 9, 2026