"Chips like the Ryzen 7 5800X3D, which are still quite capable for gaming"
"Quite capable"? Seriously? At 4k there's no difference in most games vs the 9800x3d.
Releasing more older AM4 CPUs will just have the same effect on DDR4 prices, greed drives every breath in this world. Retailers don't give a rats left nut about keeping prices cheap. There's no money in cheap products in the western world. More expensive garbage products is what North America is all about. As retailers see a shift to older hardware, prices go up, regardless of supply and demand
Quote"Quite capable"? Seriously? At 4k there's no difference in most games vs the 9800x3d.
Correct and same applies even in 1440p, especially in modern AAA titles, which are mostly GPU-bound.
Zip, new fabs are being built rn, but the memory demand has also grown. So, those who can't afford the current prices have to wait (how long is the question). Previous laptops with up to 32 GB RAM are receiving a refresh with up to 64 GB RAM, but to fit a good/smart LLM, like Gpt-Oss-120B or GLM-4.5-Air (quant) at (close to) full context, really 96 GB RAM (or probably slightly a few GBs more*) are be required.
* = go to huggingface.co/spaces/oobabooga/accurate-gguf-vram-calculator, paste huggingface.co/unsloth/gpt-oss-120b-GGUF/blob/main/gpt-oss-120b-F16.gguf into the calculator and set context to full.
I can only name like 3 games that will really bottleneck on a 5800x3d at 4k.
Monster hunter wilds
Dragon dogma 2
Stalker
Then again, those 3 game run like s*** no matter what hardware you use.