After the shitshow with AM4 I’m sure they will be keeping their communication on this as vague as possible so as to temper people’s expectations
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Shitshow? AM4 support has been legendary.
If you're referring to the BIOS issue, that was not really their fault, but the fault of some motherboard manufacturers being stingy with the memory on some BIOS's.
The main issue was the limited memory on the BIOS chips. To include more CPU's meant losing support for old chips, this could potentially get people trapped with a motherboard they didn't have the right chip for, and no way of upgrading it, like if your CPU had died or you had sold it before updating your BIOS.
They ended up solving the issue by making a program where you could borrow a CPU from AMD to do the upgrade with. It surely cost them a lot of money, but that way they could have older motherboards get support for 5000 series.
We really don't know.
In theory early adopters for AM4 serues 300 series boards should have been shafted, but after public outcry, they had at least basic support for Ryzen 5000 and even x3D ones.
We aren't guaranteed it will happen again for AM5, for sure at least the next set of CPUs (9000 series at this point if they use 8000 for the iGpu/Apu series) should be supported. Beyond that, God only knows.
I expect them to support at least 3 processor generations in the socket unless a major change of plan forces them to not do so.
I think the through 2025 means that they have a architecture in mind being on am5 ( ie zen 6 or something) it's Just a case of when it actually launches
When they released it they said they're guaranteeing support for 3 years, but are aiming for 5+ years.
AM3 was supported for 6 years, AM4 has been supported for 7 years and they're still releasing new CPUs for it. So while past performance doesn't guarantee anything, they do have a good track record.
There is probably going to be 9000 series and 9000 Series 3D. Beyond that, don't count on it. They didn't promise anything, fair game.
I need more lanes without going Threadripper again. I hope AMD comes up with a new consumer platform with an increased number of PCIe lanes rather sooner than later.
There is probably going to be 9000 series and 9000 Series 3D. Beyond that, don't count on it. They didn't promise anything, fair game.
AM4 has been introduced in March 2017, the last CPU was released March 2022 (5800x3d) and there are rumors that more AM4 are (rumour) still in development
https://www.techspot.com/news/100839-amd-may-prepping-new-am4-processors-3d-v.html
So it's likely that AM5 will at least last 5 years, if not longer
AM4 was released in 2016 and started with support for CPUs before Zen 1.
Also, the last CPU released for it was the 5600X3D which was this year.