Monday, January 30th 2023
AMD Allegedly Prepares an Even Cheaper A620 Chipset, Set to Deliver $125 Motherboards
According to HKEPC, AMD is set to introduce two versions of the A620 chipset for its lower-end motherboards, providing a lower barrier of AM5 entry for users on a smaller budget. As the new source notes, AMD is going to use its Promontory 21 (PROM21) module for A620 motherboards, the same one used on B650 and X670 models. However, for the first time, we are hearing about Promontory 22 (PROM22), a module that will allow A620-based motherboards to start at 125 US dollars—a promise made by AMD in its marketing slides (which you can see below). Two A620 chipsets will enable users to choose basic functionality or some additional features on a reasonable budget.
With PROM21 going inside all chipset SKUs, it carries silicon functionality disabled by AMD to create different categories. However, the PROM22 is a new silicon that doesn't need bells and whistles of the high-end boards inside a feature-deprived chipset like A620. This drives down AMD's costs, making it easier for vendors to adjust pricing. We have to wait for the launch and see how much of this will be fulfilled, so stay tuned for further updates.
Sources:
HKEPC, via VideoCardz
With PROM21 going inside all chipset SKUs, it carries silicon functionality disabled by AMD to create different categories. However, the PROM22 is a new silicon that doesn't need bells and whistles of the high-end boards inside a feature-deprived chipset like A620. This drives down AMD's costs, making it easier for vendors to adjust pricing. We have to wait for the launch and see how much of this will be fulfilled, so stay tuned for further updates.
63 Comments on AMD Allegedly Prepares an Even Cheaper A620 Chipset, Set to Deliver $125 Motherboards
PS. I hope Mb's with this more cuted version of A600 chipset to be far below of $125.
About a year ago I suffered the sudden death of the USB-controller on the board. How delighted I wasfinding out that 4 of the ports are still working since those have their controller in the CPU itself.
As long as they are compatible with the full list of AM5 cpus, including all upcoming 3DVcache chips, I'm ok. They'll eventually drop prices and fit into the sub 100€ category...
When it's time to get full advantage of pci-e 5.0 we'll have next platform available anyway.
PC hardware has become a rich people hobbie
Times have changed back, to the 486dx2 days where you couldn't actually buy much for reasonable price and everything was expensive.
They do have cheaper options with Am4 so I don't feel butt hurt that they want to make more money on their latest kit, I'm not buying though, so it's easier when you're sat on the fence.
:kookoo:
Sad.
Granted, the B650 chipset has about the same IO as a full featured X570, but discounting pci5.0 where's the generational and cost improvements? The X670 daisy chain feels like a nice piece of bs that sidelined true mid tier boards, B650 is pretty close to X570 and X670 is just a tier above.Brazil has insane tariffs on tech products. The idea was to help bring manufacturing to the country but the plan completely failed and only makes most products outright unaffordable to the average consumer. There's no good way around it, even buying abroad you risk customs unless you travel and bring stuff with you
And what form exactly is this cheaper chipset going to take? What exactly is left to cut? The 4 PCIe lanes that are reserved for chipset-to-chipset or chipset-to-CPU communication? How much cheaper can it really be to build a completely new, discrete chipset line for bottom-end boards?