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The challenges of AMD CPU socket longevity

AMD has supported the AM4 platform for almost a decade. I wrote "has" because the company continues to roll out new processors for the socket, allowing those with older AMD motherboards to continue ...
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A new AMD Ryzen CPU socket is reportedly coming, first details just leaked

AMD is reportedly ready to finally move to a new gaming CPU socket in the next few years, with the first unconfirmed details about its future AM6 socket starting to leak out. The new AM6 design will ...
PCGamesN

A new AMD Ryzen 5000 CPU just dropped, and Socket AM4 is now seemingly immortal

AMD has just dropped yet another Socket AM4 CPU, breathing yet more life into the aging platform. The new AMD Ryzen 5 5600F has just been launched nine years after AMD first introduced Socket AM4 in ...
Digital Trends

Everything AMD’s new AM5 socket reveals about Zen 4

The next generation of AMD Zen 4 processors, code-named AMD Ryzen Raphael, is on the horizon. While the launch is still far away, ExecutableFix on Twitter already revealed renders of what the AM5 CPU ...

AMD Just Referenced Zen 6 Ryzen Medusa CPUs For The First Time

AMD is on a mission: replace its proprietary AGESA firmware for its Ryzen and EPYC processors with openSIL, which stands for ...
TweakTown

AMD next-gen Zen 7 CPUs coming to AM5 socket says leaker: 32C/64T Zen 7 chips on AM5 in 2028

TL;DR: AMD's next-generation Zen 7 processors will support the current AM5 socket, offering up to 32 cores and 64 threads. This extends AM5's longevity through 2028, enabling upgrades from Zen 3, 4, 5 ...
PC Gamer

Despite being just a humble CPU socket, AMD 'boldly suggests' AM4 has 'legendary status'

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PC World

AMD will use the AM4 socket through its ‘Zen 3’ CPUs, but it will drop older chipset support

AMD said Thursday that it will continue to use its AM4 processor socket straight through its next generation of Zen 3 processors, fulfilling the pledge it made to continue the socket through 2020. AMD ...
HotHardware

AMD Launches EPYC 4004 Socket AM5 Server CPUs For Serious Business

It's hard to remember now, but the original AMD Ryzen processors topped out at "just" 8 cores. The Ryzen 3000 family came along in 2019 with the Ryzen 9 branding and the first sixteen-core desktop ...
ExtremeTech

The Ballad of AM4: How AMD Stretched a CPU Socket From 28nm to 7nm

Ryzen and Navi were the stars of AMD's E3, but spare a thought for the AM4 socket -- and the significant amount of work AMD has done to keep it current without compromising its promise on backward ...
Ars Technica

AMD clarifies power usage limits of its next-gen AM5 CPUs (and why that’s important)

AMD released some of the first details about its upcoming Ryzen 7000 processors, 600-series chipsets, and the new AM5 CPU socket earlier this week. We learned that Ryzen 7000 chips will perform at ...