Amd announced at the Taipei Computer show a few days ago that the architecture and process of the Reebok 7000 processor have been upgraded, and it also supports new technologies such as ddr5 and PCIe 5.0. However, there are some difficulties in memory. That is, the zen4 generation has directly abandoned DDR4 support.
Robert Hallock, AMD's technical marketing director, reconfirmed this point in an interview a few days ago, *zen4 no longer supports DDR4, only ddr5, * in the past few months, amd has communicated with suppliers and memory module manufacturers, confirmed their roadmap, and confirmed the schedule to prevent supply shortages. Everyone is optimistic about the supply and support of ddr5.
In addition to the supply problem, Robert Hallock also mentioned other advantages of AMD's support for ddr5 memory. one is that their Am5 platform is expected to make the ddr5 memory price parity or close to parity. Another is that AMD is also optimistic about the high frequency of ddr5. it is very suitable for Reebok, and they can support ddr5-6400 at an early stage, which is very encouraging.
To put it simply, amd believes that it can solve some of your concerns about ddr5 memory, including price, supply, overclocking, etc. after comprehensive consideration, it decided to give up DDR4 and only support ddr5 memory**
Of course, AMD is also very clear about this move. Robert Hallock used the word "bet" in his description. This is also a gamble. We will see whether ddr5 memory can be fully supported by everyone with the support of the Reebok 7000 as envisaged by AMD.
In addition, although Intel first launched ddr5 memory support, they are conservative in giving up DDR4, this year's 13th generation core will not give up DDR4, of course, the main support is ddr5**