Friends who know DIY know how often Intel processors change interfaces, basically every year or two, but AMD is the opposite. The current AM4 interface was born as early as 2016, first used in the seventh generation of APU Bristol Ridge, and then became the standard of the Zen Ryzen family, after four generations of products, the latest Ryzen 7 5800X3D remains unchanged.
In the second half of this year, AMD will launch the Zen4 architecture Ryzen 7000 series, 5nm process, support DDR5, PCIe 5.0, and replace the interface for AM5 for the first time, and at that time, the life of Zen4 will be up to 6 years!
AMD Game Director Frank Azor said in an interview that the AM4 interface has adhered to four generations of products (counting the APU is actually five generations), five or six years, which is remarkable, and no x86 PC platform has ever been able to do it.
It pointed out that the AM4 interface could no longer bear the innovation that AMD planned to provide in the next five years, so it turned to AM5, and the new technologies planned for the next five years will be implemented on this platform.
Frank Azor also stressed that he can't promise how long the AM5 interface will last, but hopes to reach a similar level as am4, at least four or five years.
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