This totally confuses me.

[Haswellx86]

 

The 7035, 7030, and 7020 all have the naming scheme of Ryzen 7000 (first digit is 7), but they use older generation architectures? Somehow Zen3's process node is a nanometer larger than Zen2 and Zen2 and Zen3+ use RDNA2 and LPDDR5 where Zen3 uses its normal (I guess normal?) Vega and LPDDR4. And why even make new CPUs with older architecture? I guess price?

[jaslion]

Always been like this with both intel and amd. Quite often mutliple architectures get mixed in the same series of mobile chips

 

All price related

[Haswellx86]

10 hours ago, jaslion said:

Always been like this with both intel and amd. Quite often mutliple architectures get mixed in the same series of mobile chips

 

All price related

I have never seen Intel do that.

[jaslion]

49 minutes ago, Gat Pelsinger said:

I have never seen Intel do that.

11th gen mobile consisted of 2 different cpu architectures. The 11g used a newer one whilst the 11h series used the desktop one. Good example of this

[YoungBlade]

1 hour ago, Gat Pelsinger said:

I have never seen Intel do that.

Allow me to introduce you to the Core i3-8121, Intel's first consumer 10nm processor, released at the height of 14nm+++++++ and yet given the same generational name as those chips.

 

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/136863/intel-core-i3-8121u-processor-4m-cache-up-to-3-20-ghz.html

[starsmine]

12 hours ago, Gat Pelsinger said:

 

The 7035, 7030, and 7020 all have the naming scheme of Ryzen 7000 (first digit is 7), but they use older generation architectures? Somehow Zen3's process node is a nanometer larger than Zen2 and Zen2 and Zen3+ use RDNA2 and LPDDR5 where Zen3 uses its normal (I guess normal?) Vega and LPDDR4. And why even make new CPUs with older architecture? I guess price?

wxyz
4 digits
 

y is the cpu generation, not the w
w tells you when the CPU was manufactured, which tells you when the laptop was. (which means you should be relatively up to date in terms of IO as well as a promise of support for however many years)
x tells you the tier, 
z tells you just more info if needed (like this is zen3+, not zen 3, or dragon range not phoenix)

It also tells you that its all valid for use in the current year.
There is a problem with laptop OEMs where they cant sell NEW laptops with older 1000% valid CPUs because people think the laptop is old and wont have support. 

This really is far clearer then the older (and current) intel way of doing things when you dont know what 10th or 11th gen mobile CPU actually was. Could it be tiger lake? could it be ice lake? idk. there was three generations of intel 10nm chips that existed concurrently with 14nm chips before intel 7.  

as you have noticed how the nodes are all different. 
4 core Zen2 ported to 6nm are really small, so yields are really high and chips per wafer is insane, so yes, very cheap and the performance is completely there. Hence why the code name is Mendocino and not the same code name as any previous zen2 chip

the rest spreads the loads across a large amount of nodes allowing price performance to scale far better across the entire line up. 

Rembrant has always been that way, notice the codename is Rembrant-R, as in a refresh of it
same with Barcelo.