While unexpected, AMD stated its intention to support Socket AM4 long after Socket AM5's release - something confirmed by ex AMD employee, Robert Hallock in my interview with him in 2022, where he ...

AM4 is the CPU socket that just refuses to die. Nearly a decade after first making its way into motherboards, AMD is still releasing new processors for the long-lived setup, still delivering ...

In other words, half of the CPUs AMD is selling today are still made for the old AM4 socket. And, of course, the last family of chips made for the AM4 socket was the Ryzen 5000. The Ryzen 7000 and ...

Bloody oath it is, with the AM4 socket tapping out at a rather huge 16 cores and 32 threads. There's 5 CPU architectures on AM4, 4 process nodes used, over 125 processors, and over 500 motherboards.

AMD has changed the pin count up on the AM4 however, with 1331 pins over the 942 of AM3+ and even more than Intel's current LGA 1151 socket - a first for AMD.

This article is more than 2 years old. Next month will see another Socket AM4 processor launch - the rumored Ryzen 5 5600X3D is real and will be exclusively available through Micro Center.