AMD in its Computex 2026 presentation, celebrated 10 years of the Socket AM4 platform that kickstarted the company's long march to competitiveness with Intel in the desktop PC processor market, and its eventual domination. Socket AM4 supports the original "Zen" and "Zen+," across the Ryzen 1000 and ...
What do you mean “everything is going to stall”? Like they’re going to stop developing hardware?
For consumers, yes, everything is slowing down to a crawl because we are a rounding error as far as nvidia amd and intel are concerned. Most people are just giving up on building a new PC and sticking with what they have, which means software and games will have to keep targeting the older hardware for longer.
Even console releases are slowing down, ps3 2006, ps4 2013 (7 years), ps5 2020 (7 years), but the ps6 isn’t expected until 2028 or 2029.
I mean some companies will. AMD and Intel will not. Sony will not.
They are far more interested in the server space, i.e. the money maker sector for them. Only when the AI bubble pops is where we’ll see companies trying to appease to the end consumer.
Sure but they’re also not abandoning the consumer space…
To give you a slightly different answer, CPU advancement has kind of plateaued since 2020. There are a lot of fundamental physical limits that integrated circuit tech is running up against that can only be sidestepped or optimized against, not broken. This was all happening before the AI craze pulled resources away from trying to make non-AI architectural breakthroughs, which means jumps we actually care about like the Zen release are probably not on the near horizon either.
The end result is hardware generations being viable for “classic” workloads a lot longer even on the higher end. I’m expecting my current AM4 system (5800X3D and 7900 XTX) to last another decade if not longer. It may cease to be my main rig when a good AM6 option drops (probably 2028 to 2030), but that’s more because I’m a bit of an upgrade addict than me being sensible.