A regular leaker claims to have insider information on AMD’s gen-after-next Zen 6 consumer CPUs.
Zen 5 hasn’t even arrived yet, but of course AMD is hard at work on designing the next generation after it. According to serial leaker Everest (@Olrak29_ on Twitter), the codename for consumer Zen 6 processors—analogous to «Raphael» for consumer Zen 4 processors and «Granite Ridge» for consumer Zen 5 processors—will be «Medusa».
Medusa, of course, is the name of the youngest of the three gorgon sisters from Greek mythology. She was famously depicted as a woman with snakes for hair, who, if you met her gaze, could turn you to stone. There are a lot of different metaphors you could draw on for naming a processor «Medusa», including multiple cores, or even multiple MCDs.
