Thursday, January 6th 2022
AMD Socket AM5 a "Long-lived Platform": CEO
AMD is designing its upcoming Socket AM5 platform to be a "long-lived platform," not unlike AM4. CEO Dr Lisa Su, responding to a question on the longevity of AM5, by Paul Alcorn from Tom's Hardware, said that she's very happy with AM4 being the company's long-lived desktop socket; and while she doesn't have an exact number of years to share, one could expect AM5 to be a "long-lived platform" of a similar kind.
AMD Socket AM4 was debuted alongside the company's very first Ryzen processors, in March 2017. It has remained AMD's mainstream desktop socket for close to five years; and AMD continues to launch new products for the socket. Even in 2022, the company is expected to give the socket its swansong, with the Ryzen 5000X3D processors. AM4 was designed keeping in mind dual-channel DDR4 and up to 28 lanes of PCIe Gen 3 (later Gen 4) in mind. The change to Socket AM5 is driven by next-generation I/O, namely DDR5 memory (four 40-bit channels), and PCIe Gen 5."AMD committed to the AM4 platform, the AM4 socket for quite a long time. Can you guys give us any idea of how long you will stick with AM5?," asked Paul Alcorn, to which Dr Su responded: "Well, we've been extremely pleased with how AM4 has evolved….we said we would keep that socket for a long time and we have. We continue to believe that it has been good for the community and frankly, it's been good for us as well. As we bring things along, it was time to do a socket transition for the new I/O in the new technology, but I think strategy-wise, it should be similar. I don't have an exact number of years but I would say that you should expect that AM5 will be a long-lived platform as AM4 has been. I think we're expecting AM4 to stay in the marketplace for quite some years and it will be sort of an overlapping type of thing."
Source:
PC World
AMD Socket AM4 was debuted alongside the company's very first Ryzen processors, in March 2017. It has remained AMD's mainstream desktop socket for close to five years; and AMD continues to launch new products for the socket. Even in 2022, the company is expected to give the socket its swansong, with the Ryzen 5000X3D processors. AM4 was designed keeping in mind dual-channel DDR4 and up to 28 lanes of PCIe Gen 3 (later Gen 4) in mind. The change to Socket AM5 is driven by next-generation I/O, namely DDR5 memory (four 40-bit channels), and PCIe Gen 5."AMD committed to the AM4 platform, the AM4 socket for quite a long time. Can you guys give us any idea of how long you will stick with AM5?," asked Paul Alcorn, to which Dr Su responded: "Well, we've been extremely pleased with how AM4 has evolved….we said we would keep that socket for a long time and we have. We continue to believe that it has been good for the community and frankly, it's been good for us as well. As we bring things along, it was time to do a socket transition for the new I/O in the new technology, but I think strategy-wise, it should be similar. I don't have an exact number of years but I would say that you should expect that AM5 will be a long-lived platform as AM4 has been. I think we're expecting AM4 to stay in the marketplace for quite some years and it will be sort of an overlapping type of thing."
68 Comments on AMD Socket AM5 a "Long-lived Platform": CEO
Something to consider though these aren't Lga775, if you look at those verses any modern LGA the new pins are smaller, lighter, made out of less material and denser packed.
People who are on these systems are watching EPIC-X get Zen 3 3D cache, it's very fast. Unless they're going to get Zen4 on TRX40, many people on TRX40 will be pissed off.
Plus is the lack of actual (TRX40 3,000) chips to buy anymore for TX40 Driving up the price of even the lowest one. It seems WRX80 is getting more chips than TRX40 has been.
1. ROI is deemed too inefficient to bother
2. There is no market interest on such a product or;
3. Sales of TRX40 have been underwhelming to a point they do not deem it worth it to continue maintaining the platform
AMD is a business and I would evaluate its drive forward applying the concepts of how a business thinks, after all, if so many of their target market (creative professionals) were bustling about getting Zen 3, they could long since have released the processors and indeed be ready for a third wave of 3D-stacked chips by now. :toast:
TR should account for only 1-2% of the market. Atleast according to historical data of people buying HEDT systems and Mindfactory.de data from Germany where TR sales are mostly around 1% of sales. Tho im sure AMD makes up for the volume in margings. Those TR CPU's are expensive.
There will be no more value per performance. It will be EXACTLY AS proven what they have did with the 5600XT video card. That card sole purpose was to keep the 5700 and 5700XT from falling in price.
As stated before on this site. I bought my 5700 @$280 dollars and the 5700XT @$300 dollars, 2 weeks before launch of the 5600XT. They were NOT on sale. Once the launch happened the same videos card that I purchased went up to $330 and 380 respectively.
This is called price segmentation. This is why AMD did it. This is Why Intel Does it. This is why Nvidia ESPECIALLY does it.
I'm a old man. I seen this type of crap at a business level for 43 long years. I've was an actual technology reporter during the golden age of the computer pc. I am sick of the lies and deceptions that corporate talking heads are doing.
They think you are nothing but a cooonsooomer to them. Loyalty does not matter to Lisa Su or anyone else in corporate land anymore.
As for you jumping on the AM5 wagon??? Nope. I myself will not jump to that platform anytime soon.
Because
1. There will be NO budget High end Chipset, like my MSI X570 A-PRO that I purchased for $125.00. This and every component from now on will be "Price Segmentation". This is already happening on the Intel Platform of late.
2. DDR5 is EXEPENSIVE FOR what you get and I do not see things getting cheap anytime soon.
3. I am REALLY concerned with the AMD 7000 series and Micro$haft's Pluton security setup. This is NOT software. This is a TPM chip VERY SIMILAR to what is in the PS game console. We already have seen the FORCED obsolescence and problems recently with Windows 11. I can even see someone or some company being able to BRICK your own personal computer. I hope I'm wrong but lets see what happens in a few years from now.
Lets make it clear. I can throw 5 to 20 grand on a rig and not worry about it, but I am so very old school that it hurts to see how this industry is going. And because of over 33 years of computer tech experience I built my rig that I have posted on to this site taking to consideration what this industry is doing right now.
And right now I am grateful that I made the right call back in 2019 to build a new rig when I saw the warnings on what the future would hold and that is...
Price - Segmentation without good overall value.
LGA has been on servers since Skt F (1207)
My pry bar is small scale for laptop cases.
Even Ryzen's 1000 series wasn't flawless despite efforts to make them proper and serious contenders, and were very much leapfrogged by the follow-up 2000 series. AM4's jump to PCIe 4.0 wasn't as dramatic as the upcoming leap, but it still did cause some problems, like the BIOS/CPU support issues as well as differing quality between mobo makers who either did or didn't include robust "PCIe 4.0 Ready" x16 slots. So one can only imagine how the first gen AM5 will go, and it'll be the early adopters who also get to serve as live beta testers.
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That aside, I wish their LGA socket was much like their Threadripper/EPYC solution; almost idiot proof with a keyed torque lock and a simple slide-in and lock down mechanism. Just smaller than TR, and allowing them to reuse the same torque key.