AMD might have only just launched its new Ryzen 9 9950X3D high-end gaming and productivity chip, but we're already starting to hear rumors of the next generation. The future Ryzen 10000 CPUs, based on a future Zen 6 architecture,

"The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is extremely powerful in games, which makes it easier to recommend than other recent processors like the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K or Ryzen 9 9900X. Especially if you’re building a rig with a powerful graphics card, the 9800X3D is going to be the best way to get the most performance out of whichever GPU you pair it with."

While AMD’s first Zen 5 CPUs disappointed everyone in gaming, the latest X3D versions have more than made up for that. The 9800X3D became the best gaming CPU last year, and now the 9950X3D greatly improves creator workloads while mostly maintaining that stellar gaming performance.

Shares of some of the biggest semiconductor players, including Nvidia Corp. (NVDA), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), and Broadcom Inc. (AVGO), among others, surged by as much as 6% on Wednesday even as U.

TSMC reportedly asked its biggest customers to invest in joint venture that would operate Intel's production facilities.