AMD just pulled another name shuffle, now with a couple of older-generation processors. The company quietly added two "new" processor families, Ryzen 100 and Ryzen 10, to its public price list, even though the dies inside very likely date back to when "Rembrandt" and "Mendocino" first shipped, around 2021-2022. If you see a bargain laptop this holiday season with one of those badges, you might be buying a rebadged Rembrandt or Mendocino chip dressed up for 2025 shelves. Early listings suggest the top Ryzen 100 models are essentially reshuffled Rembrandt, Zen 3+ parts carrying 8C/16T, a Radeon 680M iGPU and the FP7-R2 platform, repackaged with a 28 W TDP that vendors commonly tune between 15 W and 30 W.

Further down the stack, Ryzen 5 parts shave off cores and clocks but often keep the same 680M GPU. The Ryzen 10 line looks like a reuse of Mendocino, Zen 2 silicon for entry level systems that pairs 4C/8T CPU with a cut-down 2-CU Radeon 610M and typical 15 W power targets. Many of the refreshed listings still point to PCIe 3.0 as the fastest lane and leave USB4 as optional, so don't expect any modern I/O fireworks on these parts. Readers might wonder why is AMD bringing older silicon back? Our best guess is that AMD may be monetizing existing inventory, wafers and validated designs produced when 6 nm capacity was limited and costly. Having secured that capacity at TSMC, AMD was obliged to use it even if it moved on to newer CPU generations.