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 ...
In other words, there’s no way in hell we can innovate and make money right now, so you’re stuck here until the AI bubble bursts. Consumer innovation is on full stop while we focus on the corpos.
AM5 had a poor launch because of high memory prices in the pre AI era.
Releasing AM6 later might allow AMD to make the platform more economical at launch.
Or if they launch AM6 early and support AM5 via a dual socket generation (unlikely TBH), that’s also good. Use older memory for normal workloads. Upgrade if you want top of the line perf.