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Uhh, what happened to the 4000-series desktop CPUs?

• searchableguy 6y ago
  Number 4 is considered an omen in china. Probably changed it due to marketing reasons. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerology
  • onli 6y ago
    They claimed confusion with the 4000 series mobile processors and APUs. That's quite more likely, they wouldn't have released that series otherwise.
  • brobinson 6y ago
    It's not limited to just the PRC... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia
• CraftThatBlock 6y ago
  They skipped 4000 because of their mobile/APU series, which always used +1000 in the model number: - Zen 2 desktop: 3000 - Zen 2 mobile/APU: 4000 This way, Zen 3 will all be on 5000
• mattashii 6y ago
  They probably wanted to fix the confusion about what type of core was fitted into each processor, as the 3000-series desktop processors contain Zen 2 for the parts without iGPU, but use Zen 1+ for the parts with iGPU. 4000-series currently is only parts with iGPU and Zen 2, so they have comparable performance to the 3000-series desktop processors without iGPU. So, I expect that iGPU-enabled parts which contain Zen 3 will also be branded as 5000-series CPUs.