Amd will continue to sell its fx and sempron processors

The arrival of Ryzen processors will not cause AMD to withdraw its current FX and Sempron chips from the market, they will simply coexist together for a season as different ranges focused on different users.

AMD is not retiring its FX, Athlon and Sempron for now

Ryzen arrive in March as AMD's flagship product capable of competing with Intel's most powerful processors, the company will continue to sell its current processors as a lower range for users who have a tight budget or who do not have the need to buy the most powerful.

Ryzen works with the AM4 platform, like the 7th generation Bristol Ridge APUs, so it would be very easy to acquire a very cheap processor now and upgrade to a more powerful Ryzen family in the future, with this AMD aims to unify its platform and ease the way to its new chips. Later will come the Raven Ridge APUs based on Zen and Polaris / Vega graphics that will also use the AM4 socket.

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We do not know when the 4 and 6 core Ryzen processors will arrive, perhaps they will appear a little later to give AMD the margin to sell its current processors and destroy the existing stock.

The cheaper processors are very important in emerging markets such as Asia, they also help maintain the production volume agreed with its partners such as Global Foundries as they are much cheaper to produce chips.

Source: pcworld