Quote from: Rob Stan on May 19, 2022, 23:30:31
PS: AM4/DDR4 will likely sell by side with AM5/DDR5 for quite awhile, so there is no big need for them to make Zen4 have a DDR4 IMC, Zen5 and successors even more so. AM5 is gonna be another platform with longevity, tying it down with dual DDR4/5 compatibilities hold it back. Remember, whatever comes after desktop Raptor Lake for Intel (either Meteor Lake or Lunar Lake) will need be on a new socket/chipset...

Early adopters will get screwed in some way, by DDR5 prices, platform bugs, etc, but it's still a fine strategy and AM4 owners should have some good choices for at least a couple of years. I hope we see some interesting budget options on AM5 eventually.

The small integrated graphics included on Raphael will be a nice addition. There are definitely programmer types out there who would want a 6-core or even 16-core Zen 4 CPU with 4 CUs of low-clocked RDNA2.

This is gonna be be the motherload of consumer announcements.

- New socket/new chipsets (chiplet based)
- New desktop and mobile CPU/APU architecture(s)
- New GPU architecture
- Possible sneak peeks at more

Hopefully some concrete launch dates on some of these as well.

PS: AM4/DDR4 will likely sell by side with AM5/DDR5 for quite awhile, so there is no big need for them to make Zen4 have a DDR4 IMC, Zen5 and successors even more so. AM5 is gonna be another platform with longevity, tying it down with dual DDR4/5 compatibilities hold it back. Remember, whatever comes after desktop Raptor Lake for Intel (either Meteor Lake or Lunar Lake) will need be on a new socket/chipset...