AMD’s new pitch: our old tech is so good you should just keep using it

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AMD CEO Lisa Su holds a Ryzen chip. | Image: AMD

Computex 2026 is underway successful Taiwan, and we're expecting each mode of flashy computers with jaw-dropping pricetags (or nary pricetags astatine all) as the full manufacture navigates RAMageddon.

But for desktop PC gamers, AMD has a antithetic pitch. It's relaunching 3 old components alongside a large caller promise: you won't request to bargain a caller motherboard until 2030.

Today, AMD is promising it volition support supporting its AM5 desktop motherboard socket with caller Ryzen processors done 2029, which apt means you tin support upgrading to newer CPUs till the extremity of the decennary without changing your board.

Even if you're inactive connected the older AM4 socket, you …

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