The AMD Zen 3 and 600 Series chipsets will reach the end of the year with USB 4.0

The AMD Zen 3 can be unveiled at CES 2021

CES looks like AMD's favorite event to make the most important announcements of the year, with processors AMD Zen 3 They are already racing for what will happen next year. This makes sense if the filtering is straightforward and the company has a new c ready600 Series hipsets by the end of the year, because that wouldn't make sense that it would be introducing a new generation of processors without a new chipset to support them. Unfortunately nothing is known about its existence support for current generation processors

in these chipsets.

In a sense, AMD is expected to introduce 500 Series chipsets, including the B550 and A520, earlier this year (or at least they are expected to enter the production phase of the first quarter we are in), and with a series of 600, they confirm that one of the major tasks will be support for standard USB 4.0.

AMD Zen 3 processors are expected to be AMD Zen's high-tech platform, and use 7 nm process of TSMC in the most advanced stage of maturation, showing significant improvement in efficiency without reducing lithography. Commenting on it, TSMC expects that by the end of this year AMD will be its biggest customer (currently fourth in its l ist), which says a lot about the company's plans.

Future plans for AMD and goodbye to the AM4 socket

For now AMD is limited to the provision provided by TSMC, as the power to send chips at 7 nm from the manufacturer is frustrated by Apple at the moment. Sometime in the second half of this year, Apple will use 5 nm lithography, leaving enough "space" at 7 nm for some customers, including AMD. It is said that the company has already applied for 30,000 files (which is a huge amount), and Intel continues to keep the ban on hold while the factories are operating properly.

The AMD 600 series chipsets will have the X670 in the lead, which will replace the X570 PCH. According to rumors the X670 chip will maintain the AM4 socket

and I will have PCIe 4.0 support, in addition to better I / O support. There is also talk that you will support the traditional Thunderbolt 3 on the chipset. This is where things start to get cloudy, because the most logical thing would be that with a series of 600 chipsets, AMD will retire from the socket.

Why? The company is already doing it on the HEDT list of processors, and it makes sense to follow the same line for other benchmarks. In addition, it introduces new technologies such as USB 4.0, DDR5 and PCI-Express 5.0 In fact it can make this trading decision profitable (especially long-term compliance). Finally, by the end of 2020 the AM4 platform will take more than four years on the market, and it would be a good time to change the socket without leaving users feeling too close.