So have been "aggressive about placing orders," for components. Information pertaining to AMD Ryzen has raised plenty of hopes among PC enthusiasts. The initial official unveiling provided enough information for people to get their teeth into and believe in a return to the glory days of AMD CPUs. More recently AMD released some easy to digest bite-sized videos, highlighting all the positive reasons you might be interested in a new AMD processor. Then yesterday we saw a brief first review, with benchmarks, of a Ryzen engineering sample processor.