AMD confirms Olympic Ridge and Medusa1 for the AM5 socket on its technical portal
AMD has added two code names to its technical information portal. Olympic Ridge and Medusa1 They now appear within the section Ryzen Desktop with AM5 socket. The update provides official support for compatibility known until now through leaks.
The discovery also holds a surprise for Medusa1. AMD relates this family to the FP10 package used in mobile equipment, but at the same time includes it among its AM5 desktop products. Both names are part of the manufacturer’s technical plans.
Olympic Ridge is officially associated with the AM5 socket
Within the product tree for AMD Ryzen Desktop, Olympic Ridge is listed under socket AM5. The appearance clears up one of the doubts surrounding the next generation of Ryzen desktop processors: the type of connection it will use.
Leaks had been associating Olympic Ridge with Zen 6 processors for AM5but AMD had not yet publicly linked the codename to that socket. The change in the technical portal gives more solidity to that relationship, although the details of the models that will reach the stores are still missing.
The documentation It also does not confirm that the commercial name will be Ryzen 10000. AMD may adopt other numbering when announcing the range. For now, the combination listed on their website is Olympic Ridge and AM5.
Medusa1 appears in both FP10 and AM5
The situation of Medusa1 is more striking. The technical portal had already related this family to FP10, a package intended for mobile processors. The new organization also shows Medusa1 within Ryzen Desktop for AM5, opening the door to desktop variants derived from the same family.
The documentation tree does not show that the same piece of silicon will be sold in both formats. AMD could group different variants under a common name, so we will have to wait for the technical sheets to know the configuration of each product.
Medusa1 has previously been linked to upcoming AMD APUs in which CPU, graphics and artificial intelligence acceleration would share the same package. Leaks have mentioned different combinations of cores and integrated graphics, but that data remains out of confirmation. What is verifiable is limited to FP10 and AM5 as platforms associated with Medusa1.
AMD has not added commercial references, numbers of cores, cache memory, frequencies, consumption or graphic configuration. There are also no prices or a specific launch date for either family.
The alleged configurations of up to 24 cores for Olympic Ridge, the possible replacement of the basic GPU by an NPU and the structures attributed to Medusa1 remain unconfirmed. The update supports the names and their relationship with the platforms, but does not automatically validate the rest of the leaks.
AM5 support is committed until 2029
AMD extended its commitment to AM5 until 2029 at Computex 2026. The date provides official margin to incorporate generations after Zen 5 without immediately replacing the socket released with the Ryzen 7000.
Olympic Ridge’s inclusion in the catalog fits with that timeline. For those who already use an AM5 board, the possibility of having a future upgrade while preserving the DDR5 board and memory increases. Each processor will need to appear on its manufacturer’s compatibility list and may require a prior BIOS update.
AMD keeps the trade names, specifications and calendar of both families unpublished. The specific novelty is that its technical portal already places Olympic Ridge and Medusa1 within the AM5 ecosystem, while Medusa1 also retains its association with FP10 for mobile devices.
