AMD confirms AM5 socket will be supported through 2029

At Computex 2026 AMD showed little new PC gaming hardware — a cut-down GPU plus a last‑ and a penultimate‑generation X3D CPU — but it made a key announcement for builders: the AM5 desktop socket will be supported by new processors through 2029. The company had previously committed to "2027 and beyond" in 2024; at the show it crossed out "beyond" and replaced it with 2029.

With Zen 6 chips expected later this year or early in 2027, that suggests Zen 7 CPUs could use the same socket. Whether current X870 or B850 motherboards will accept those future chips depends on BIOS capacity, though boards with extra‑large BIOS chips probably will.

In naming terms AM5 appears likely to span the 7000‑series up through the 11000‑ or even 12000‑series, assuming AMD keeps that code scheme — something the company hasn't always maintained. AMD also announced a tweak to its EXPO memory overclocking system: EXPO Ultra Low Latency (EXPO ULL), which it says can deliver up to 4% more gaming performance versus the standard EXPO profile.

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