AMD Revives Older Ryzen Chips with “New” Ryzen 10 and Ryzen 100 Branding

AMD has quietly refreshed its lineup by adding two “new” processor families to its price list: the Ryzen 100 and Ryzen 10. These aren’t fresh designs, though—the chips inside are likely from the “Rembrandt” and “Mendocino” era, dating back to 2021-2022. If you spot a budget laptop this holiday season with one of these labels, you might be getting a rebranded older chip tailored for 2025. Early listings show the top Ryzen 100 models are basically updated Rembrandt Zen 3+ parts with 8C/16T, a Radeon 680M iGPU, and the FP7-R2 platform, now at a 28 W TDP that vendors tune between 15 W and 30 W.

Lower Ryzen 5 models trim cores and speeds but keep the 680M GPU. The Ryzen 10 series appears to reuse Mendocino Zen 2 silicon for entry-level setups, pairing 4C/8T CPU with a scaled-down 2-CU Radeon 610M and typical 15 W targets. Many listings stick to PCIe 3.0 as the max speed and list USB4 as optional, so don’t look for cutting-edge I/O here. Why is AMD bringing back old silicon? It’s likely to clear out inventory, wafers, and validated designs from when 6 nm capacity was scarce and expensive. AMD had to use what it had, even as it moved to newer generations.