AMD is giving us our first official details regarding the new mainstream Ryzen family of processors, and there aren't too many surprises, given what we've already seen from the plethora of leaks. That said, pricing and detailed specs show some exciting new alternatives from AMD and a refined family of chips to give Intel even more reason to lose a bit of sleep.

These new AMD CPUs are all based on the 12nm Zen+ architecture and -- at least initially -- include four SKUs...