Tom's Hardware reports that AMD is exploring adding support for Ryzen™ 5000 Series CPUs for 300 Series chipsets. David McAfee, vice president and general manager of the company's customer channel business, said in an interview that this is definitely one of the problems they are trying to solve: "We haven't completely forgotten about this thing that can benefit the community, and we're trying to figure out how it will happen."
One of the previous controversies surrounding the AMD AM4 platform was that despite the company's commitment to long-term support for the platform, the new and old chipset motherboards failed to achieve the same support for Ryzen™s CPUs.
As one of AMD's longest-running consumer platforms ever, the AM4 interface has also become a wide variety of processor models, resulting in a somewhat stretched supply of mainstream 16MB motherboard BIOS space (SPI ROM).
If the BIOS capacity is not upgraded to 32MB, vendors will be forced to abandon the graphical user interface (GUI) or eliminate some CPU support code.
While David McAfee's latest statement isn't a promise, there has been no shortage of "demon board" vendors that have broken through some of AMD's limitations — for example, many vendors have added support for AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series CPUs for entry-level A320 chipsets.
Although for the sake of motherboard power supply and extended performance, mid-to-high-end B350 / X370 motherboards may be more suitable. However, for those old users who chose the AM4 platform early, whether they can get support for the Ryzen™ 5000 CPU depends on whether AMD and the motherboard manufacturer have the intention to promote.
David McAfee adds, "Honestly, this topic has generated a lot of attention and discussion within AMD. I'm not joking when I say this, but I've talked about it three times a day today, without communicating with the media."
The AMD engineering team is discussing what they can do about it and how to bring a 300 chipset motherboard experience to those who want to upgrade to the Ryzen™ 5000 Series CPU.
Of course, in the specific implementation process, technical research may be more complicated than expected. After all, AMD's flagship Ryzen™ R9-5850X processor has 16 cores / 32 threads, and the supporting components such as powering the motherboard designed for the 8-core CPU may face considerable challenges during separate validation.
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