Recently, AMD CEO Dr. Zifeng Su was interviewed by Paul Alcorn of Tom's Hardware, during which he answered questions about the expected useful life of the AM5 platform.
First, she's excited that the AM4 platform, based on the PGA 1311 pin, is the longevity interface in the company's desktop platform history. Second, for the AM5 platform in LGA 1718 footprint style, although AMD does not have exact year data to share, the company still hopes that it will live as long as the AM4.
We have seen the outstanding market performance of the Ryzen 1000 / 2000 / 3000 / 4000 / 5000 series CPUs (and APUs), and the CPU architecture has been upgraded all the way to Zen 3+.
At the same time, during the CES 2022 keynote, AMD also released the Ryzen 5000X3D series processors that "guard the last glory of AM4". In fact, as early as the beginning of the design, AM4 has already considered many subsequent upgrade redundancy. In addition to dual channel DDR4 memory, there are up to 28 PCIe buses from Gen 3.0 to 4.0 channels.
The expected new generation of Zen 4 architecture/AM5 processors will introduce next-generation I/O to support DDR5 memory (40-bit channels) and PCIe 5.0.
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