AMD Comfirms AM5 Longevity As Legendary AM4 Socket Turns 10

One of the major selling points of AMD's Ryzen processors for the desktop is the chip designer's commitment to socket longevity. To put it into perspective, socket AM4 introduced with AMD's original Zen processors is turning 10 years old this year and is still seeing platform support with chipset updates and even new processor models. Will socket AM5 see the same kind of commitment to long-term support? The answer is 'Yes', according to remarks made by Jack Huynh, SVP and GM of Computing and Graphics at AMD.

Huynh reaffirmed AMD's long-term commitment to AM5 in a video highlighting the launch of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor, the first Ryzen chip to feature 3D V-Cache on both core complex dies (CCDs).

In the video, Huynh talks about AMD's effort to push technology forward "in ways that truly matter." He pointed to Threadripper as an ...