AMD Announces Socket AM5 Longevity till 2029 (opens in new tab)

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 Ryzen 2000; and would go on to support Ryzen 3000 "Zen 2," Ryzen 4000 "Zen 2" APUs, and the vastly successful Ryzen 5000 "Zen 3" series, at which point it had achieved performance leadership over I...