Big hopeMultiple independence sources have confirmed that AMD has Zen x86 prototype chips ready for demonstration, and they might even be displayed tomorrow during the Computex 2016 press conference here in Taiwan.

The Zen processor will officially come at later date, toward the later part of the year at the earliest, and it should be competitive.AMD was always communicating that the company should launch the Zen processor before the end of 2016, but of course, this is the best case scenario.We have heard that Zen performance should be competitive with Intel's high-end desktop (HEDT) Broadwell-E lineup, but it is not clear exactly how good the processors are going to be. AMD won't share much about the performance of these parts, since it still has Bristol Ridge, a mainstream part that is already live at the company's website and marketed as a 7th generation APU series.