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AMD has countered online fury about
backwards compatibility, by announcing that
its forthcoming Zen 3 CPUs will run on
400-series chipsets. The move came after
AMD’s senior technical marketing manager,
Robert Hallock, wrote a blog post, called ‘The
Exciting Future of AMD Socket AM4’, which
stated that Zen 3 CPUs would be backwards
compatible with motherboards based on
AMD’s 500-series chipsets, such as X
and B550, including the above chart.
‘While we wish could enable full support
for every processor on every chipset,’ said
Hallock, ‘the flash memory chips that store
BIOS settings and support have capacity
limitations.’ Basically, there wouldn’t be room
for all the code needed to support so many
processor models in the 16MB BIOS chip. An
online backlash ensued, and AMD took stock.
‘Over the past week, we closely reviewed
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every video, read every comment and
saw every Tweet,’ said the company in a
statement. ‘As the team weighed your
feedback against the technical challenges
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result, we will enable an upgrade path for
B450 and X470 customers that adds support
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“Zen 3” architecture.’
AMD says it now plans to ‘develop and
enable our motherboard partners with the
code to support “Zen 3”-based processors
in select beta BIOSes for AMD B450 and
X470 motherboards’. However, the
company warns that enabling this BIOS
update may remove your motherboard’s
support for older CPUs, and that you
won’t be able to flash back to an older
BIOS afterwards. Zen 3 will also be the
last CPU generation supported by
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