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AMD’s new pitch: our old tech is so good you should just keep using it

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AMD CEO Lisa Su holds a Ryzen chip. | Image: AMD

Computex 2026 is underway in Taiwan, and we’re expecting all manner of flashy computers with jaw-dropping prices (or no prices at all) as the entire industry navigates RAMageddon.

But for desktop PC gamers, AMD has a different pitch. It’s relaunching three old components alongside a big new promise: you won’t need to buy a new motherboard until 2030.

Today, AMD is promising it will keep supporting its AM5 desktop motherboard socket with new Ryzen processors through 2029, which likely means you can keep upgrading to newer CPUs till the end of the decade without changing your board.

Even if you’re still on the older AM4 socket, you may ha …

Read the full story at The Verge.

  

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