Amd ryzen 5000 (zen 4) would require a new socket in 2021

A new leaked AMD roadmap is suggesting that starting with Zen 4, the Ryzen 5000 series will require a new socket to function.

AMD plans to ditch AM4 in 2021?

The information comes from a "leaked" roadmap, which supposedly confirms that AMD plans to ditch AM4 in 2021. The problem here is that this is not a rumor.

These rumors stem from a "leaked" slide claiming that Zen 4- based "Genoa" series of EPYC CPUs would use a new "SP5 platform." In his presentation, Martin Hilgeman of AMD said that the SP5 would offer a new socket, a new type of memory (probably DDR5) and other "new capabilities." This information came from the 2019 HPC AI Advisory Council Conference in the UK, which uploaded a video of AMD's presentation to YouTube. This video has since been removed.

The fact that EPYC Genova (based on Zen 4) requires a new socket, may lead us to the conclusion that Ryzen 5000 based on the same Zen 4 architecture may suffer the same fate, the use of a new socket.

This fits AMD's statements in 2018. Last year AMD confirmed that it planned to support the AM4 socket until 2020. Assuming AMD followed this plan to the letter, this would mean that AM4 would support Ryzen 2000, Ryzen 3000 and Ryzen 4000. Starting in 2021 with Ryzen 5000, the decision would be to use a new socket.

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AMD has been promising support for AM4 until 2020 since the launch of Ryzen. The release of the AM5 socket (or whatever AMD calls it) in 2021 is practically a certainty if we heed AMD's original statements. We will keep you informed.

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