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New AMD Athlon Gold Pro chip appears for sale on AliExpress

One of the AliExpress vendors has discovered an AMD Athlon Gold 4000G series chip, which has not yet been announced by the manufacturer. There was only one processor available for $118.29 - it was discounted from the starting price of $168.99.

The seller sells products from several countries, including China, Malaysia, Vietnam and Costa Rica, he also clarified that he is not selling new chips, but used ones. Most likely, we are talking about engineering samples of the Athlon chip. As of this writing, the chip has not yet been purchased - the only copy is still available. The description shows a screenshot of the CPU-Z program, according to which it is a 4-core, 4-thread processor with a base clock frequency of 3.3GHz and 4MB of L3 cache.

The product is really curious, as AMD hasn't officially unveiled its Athlon Gold 4000G series chips yet. The Athlon Gold 3000G line remains relevant today, it includes 4-core models Athlon Gold 3150 GE, 3150G, 2-core model 3050 GE, as well as their Pro counterparts including Athlon Gold Pro 3150G, Pro 3150GE and Pro 3125GE. . These are processors based on outdated Zen + cores, announced in 2020. So the appearance of chips on the 4000G series makes sense – especially as Intel is gearing up to restock the Alder Lake lineup with Pentium and Celeron models.

If AMD decides to upgrade budget models, the processors will likely run on a more modern and significantly more powerful Zen 2 architecture. However, there is no information about the company's plans, and even insiders haven't had time to share rumors.

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