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How long will AM4 processors remain available.

Minstadave said:
It would be awesome but has anyone done this before or is it just a pipe dream? Off the top of head I don't remember anyone bringing in a new range once a platform has been superceded, they'd worry about cannibalising sales on the new platform.

5700X is a really nice CPU upgrade from a 1700X.
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Well, given this nothing is impossible: https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-reportedly-resumes-production-of-ryzen-3000g-series
It wouldn't be much different than when they released the RX 590, which was released after Vega and was a straight die shrink of the RX 580.

Would there be a market for a Zen 3 with +5-10% clock speed?
 
Wing-Man said:
There not going to make new chips, in the link amd have already confirmed it’s 3xxx chips there going to be making.
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I didn't say the article stated they were going to make new chips, I simply implied that if they are still making 3x chips they might consider to make a 6nm zen 3 budget offering. After all it would be a straight port of the current stuff to a slightly denser compatible library which allows a little higher clocks.
Making the chips is not an issue, IMHO the tricky part would be persuading MB makers to make yet another BIOS change.
 
But the article states there is a contract to make chips with Globalfoundries and have to make cheap chips to fulfil that contract,. making new chips on a new node is not cheap and my need a new contract.
the Globalfoundries contract is a contract AMD want out of not to have to extend.

if they was to make 6nm zen 3+ they wouldn't throw the contract to Globalfoundries.

AMD have Stated there making to cheapest chips possible to fulfil the expensive contract.
 
Wing-Man said:
But the article states there is a contract to make chips with Globalfoundries and have to make cheap chips to fulfil that contract,. making new chips on a new node is not cheap and my need a new contract.
the Globalfoundries contract is a contract AMD want out of not to have to extend.

if they was to make 6nm zen 3+ they wouldn't throw the contract to Globalfoundries.

AMD have Stated there making to cheapest chips possible to fulfil the expensive contract.
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Again, I know what the article said.

My point is:

1) They are not against rehashing older chips
2) 6nm is simply an optimized 7nm, just like glofo 12nm was an optimized 14nm so it doesn't need any major new developments
3) They did pull something like that in the past, the RX590
4) Right now 6nm is mostly used for laptops and 7600 GPUs, once some capacity will free up they might give a shot at a Zen3+ if they decide there is a market for it
 
I imagine they'll keep them going for quite a while, as a budget option.

That said, there'll be a steady stream of dirt cheap AM4 CPU's/motherboards on auction sites/MM etc, so sales of brand new units will decline into nothingness eventually, though don't see that happening for a year or so.
 
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