Will Every AMD 600 And 800 Series Motherboard Support Zen 6? Here's What To Expect

AMD's Socket AM4 launched way back in September 2016, and it's still getting new CPUs released to this very day. However, some of the earliest boards may not have ever gotten the necessary BIOS updates to support newer-generation CPUs, while others that did receive the necessary BIOS updates had to drop support for earlier generations of Socket AM4 CPUs to do so. Is that going to happen with Socket AM5?

Some people feared that this would be the case after both ASUS and ASRock started crowing about being able to support AMD's next-generation Zen 6 processors thanks to the presence of a double-sized 64MB BIOS ROM chip. If these boards needed the extra space for Zen 6 microcode, does that mean that boards with only 32MB of BIOS ROM capacity would be forced to drop support for Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 processors to add support for the ...