AMD's popular CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, confirmed that both the new Zen 3 CPU and RDNA 2 graphics card are on track for launch later this year, despite everything that is currently happening around the world.

The company held an earnings call last night and released some pretty eye-popping numbers, only this time they were not based on the multi-core performance of the processors: thanks to the success of the AMD Ryzen CPUs and Radeon GPUs, the company generated $1.79 billion in revenue in the first three months of 2020 The company raised. Eek. That's silicon sales.

So it's no wonder that AMD is laser-focused to avoid delays in its release schedule, with Dr. Suh enthusiastically noting that the company plans to launch its next-generation Zen 3 CPU and RDNA 2 GPU in late 2020.

What "late 2020" means as an actual release date is not certain. New Year's Eve is a possibility, but it is also possible that Zen 3 will launch in September, as some rumors suggest; the entire month of November is a critical retail period for the year, so AMD would want to refresh both the CPU and GPU in time for the dreaded November black consumption They may want to do so.

Given that Dr. Suh had already suggested a timescale of late 2020 around the time of this year's CES, there were concerns about the impact COVID-19 might have on the supply chain. As a result, if the release of the AMD Zen 3 CPU was delayed, it could have been released next year instead. However, Dr. Su quickly dismissed such concerns.

"We quickly adapted our global operations to avoid supply chain disruptions and to accommodate geographic and market demand shifts caused by COVID-19," she explained. [As a result, it appears that AM has been able to make a lot of money and will have shiny new CPU and GPU silicon to put in their gaming PCs by the end of the year.

The AMD Zen 3 processor is an evolution of the current Ryzen 3000 CPU's 7nm design, but uses a slightly updated manufacturing process that, according to AMD's Forrest Norrod, will deliver performance gains "on par with what you would expect from a completely new architecture." The company says it will deliver. [This could mean that AMD CPUs will overtake Intel's historic gaming performance lead in both single-threaded and multi-threaded performance. [On the graphics side, the RDNA 2 GPU is AMD's first desktop graphics card to support real-time ray tracing and will deliver 50% more performance per watt than current Radeon RX 5000 cards. Also expected to continue is the legendary Big Navi, a high-end GPU long rumored to offer gaming performance comparable to Nvidia's top-of-the-line Turing chips.

It will be quite an end of the year, especially if Nvidia announces its intentions for Ampere in its May GTC keynote stream, and several new GeForce GPUs will also be available by the end of 2020.