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Interview: AMD’s Dr. Lisa Su talks Ryzen 7000, AM5, RDNA 2, and more

Paul Alcorn with Tom's Hardware: AMD committed to the AM4 platform, the AM4 socket for quite a long time. Can you guys give us any idea of how long you will stick with AM5?

Dr. Lisa Su: Well, we've been extremely pleased with how AM4 has evolved….we said we would keep that socket for a long time and we have. We continue to believe that it has been good for the community and frankly, it's been good for us as well. As we bring things along, it was time to do a socket transition for the new I/O in the new technology, but I think strategy-wise, it should be similar. I don't have an exact number of years but I would say that you should expect that AM5 will be a long-lived platform as AM4 has been. I think we're expecting AM4 to stay in the marketplace for quite some years and it will be sort of an overlapping type of thing.

Jackie Thomas, TechRadar: In the past, AMD has always had a lot of really affordable products. But over the last couple of years, that's kind of stopped happening. Especially with Ryzen 5000, where we still don't have anything lower-end than the Ryzen 5 5600X that is a Zen 3. Is there any reason why that keeps happening, because that happened with the Ryzen 3000 series too?

David McAfee, AMD CVP of Product Management: What I would say first and foremost is that we do understand the broad market needs, and servicing each of those markets with the right product that has the right capability, and delivers the right experience is very, very important to us. And so when you're looking at a product like the Ryzen 5 5600X, imagine scaling that to lower price points with different capability; it may not satisfy the needs of what that that segment is really going after at the end of the day. And that's where we see some of our APU products, or in many cases, n-minus-one products stepping in and filling some of the more mainstream and value-oriented price points across the portfolio. I think that one of the things you've seen from us more and more on the notebook side is addressing some of those broader needs in the portfolio. And the use, even as we launched the 6000-series products this year, refreshing our 5000 series, U-series mobile parts to address a broader range of price points in the market, has been a strategy that we've used for a couple of years now. And leveraging those economies of scale and manufacturing learnings to stretch the price point coverage, and system price point coverage that we're able to deliver while still maintaining the quality of experience that we want to deliver to that end user has been the approach that we've used over the past couple of years to broaden the market coverage that we can deliver.

Dr. Lisa Su: But let me just say, though, Jackie, you're making a point that we've heard from the community. So, I hear you. And I think as we look at the product portfolio going forward, I think trying to fill out, let's call it some of the, you know, below 5600 lineup, is something that is on our minds. So your comment is well taken.

Čini mi se da za AM5 ne treba u skorije vrijeme očekivati neke pristupačne Zen 4 procesore. Možda ubace Zen 3+ APU modele da služe kao "low-end" modeli ali Zen 4 vjerojatno ne treba očekivati u modelima ispod $350.
Sad na Ryzen 3000 modele gledaju kao modele koji popunjavaju rupu ispod 250 eura kod Ryzen 5000 modela.