Three “new” Ryzen processors have appeared on AMD's website, scheduled for release in the current second quarter of 2026: the AMD Ryzen 3 3100U and Ryzen 5 3501U for notebooks, and the Ryzen 7 4700LE for desktop PC mainboards with the AM4 socket.
All three are variants of processors that AMD introduced years ago: Ryzen 3 3100U and Ryzen 5 3501U belong to the “Picasso” series manufactured using 12 nm process, have Zen+ generation CPU cores, and date back to 2019. The Ryzen 7 4700LE (Renoir) has slightly more modern Zen 2 cores and is manufactured using TSMC N7 technology.
For Cheaper Budget Systems
The “new” processors with a Q2/2026 release date were discovered in the CPU lists on AMD's website by keen observers: Ryzen 3 3100U, Ryzen 5 3501U, Ryzen 7 4700LE. All of them have in common that they control DDR4 SDRAM, which is currently cheaper than the scarce and therefore very expensive DDR5 SDRAM chips.
At Computex, AMD had already re-released the gaming processor Ryzen 7 5800X3D, marking the tenth anniversary of the AM4 CPU socket for DDR4 RAM.
