News The Exciting Future of AMD Socket AM4

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The Exciting Future of AMD Socket AM4

In 2016, we made a pretty bold commitment to you: we would continue to support AMD Socket AM4 until 2020. It was a big promise, especially given what people were accustomed to with other platforms. In the four ensuing years, the humble Socket AM4 has been on an incredible trajectory: 4X more...

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AMD has backtracked and decided to offer beta bios support on 400 series motherboards.

 

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Zen 4 is said to have compatibility with DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 which will need a different type of pin requirements.


You guys haven't proved my comment silly. Zen 3 is said to be the last on AM4. If it get two more years and we KNOW that, then YES it is on its deathbed. It's about to be End of Life, and I doubt it will even take two years to get there.

And another fact. We KNOW AMD is ready to move to a new socket. What socket is the Threadripper using? Is it the AM4 Socket? It comes to the point where you have to move forward. Intel changing sockets all the time sucks of coarse, but at the same time if there is a innovation that will hold the CPU back, then hey what to do!? Tech moves fast and stuff gets old quick. Why you guys are acting brand new is crazy!

I'm not really interested in getting in a semantic argument about what "deathbed" and "end of life" mean. To me that's like saying every human on earth is on their deathbed on their 60th birthday. We know for sure that at least one more generation of CPU's will be supported on AM4 that is 5-6 months away from being released. Based on AMD's release cadence that puts AM5 2 years from now. If you want to call it dead end when zen 3 releases that's one thing but death bed seems to be a poor way to describe a platform that will remain current for another 40% of its total lifespan. LGA 1200 released last week and will be dead end in the same time frame. At least in it's current iteration.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.