AMD will continue to use socket AM4 until 2020

AMD announced at CES that the company will continue to support Socket AM4 through 2020. According to the company, motherboards purchased this year will also work with future processors through a bios update.

Technology presenter Linus Sebastian makes the news known in an AMD-sponsored video on his YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips. Sebastian says AMD plans to replace the socket only when pci-e gen. 4 widely implemented and ddr5 ram is available.

The announcement is in line with previous company policies. AM4’s predecessor, AM3+, appeared on the market in 2011 with the introduction of the first Bulldozer processors. The socket, which also worked with older processors made for the AM3 socket, is still in use five years later.

Intel generally allows motherboard sockets to last for two generations. The exception to this is the socket currently in use, LGA 1151. It was introduced in 2015 for use with Skylake processors and will continue to work with the future Coffee Lake processors, which should replace the recently released Kaby Lake processors on desktops. follow up.