To Get AMD Ryzen 2 CPUs You Will Not Need A New Motherboards

Based on the recent reports and what we have heared from AMD officials You can use the new cpus from AMD ryzen 2 platform without upgrading to a new motherboard. You can make your current am4 motherboard support the new Ryzen 2 CPUs by only updating the BIOS firmware.

While now it is confirmed that AMD is to Release Ryzen 2nd gen CPUs or “Ryzen Refresh” based on Zen architecture in Q1 2018, there was this question hanging around for current ryzen users that if they need new chip or mother board or will have compatibility issues with current ryzen related hardware. In CES 2018 AMD is expected to have a lot to show and one of them is the ryzen 2. After 2017 being a very successful year for amd products specially Ryzen 5 and ryzen 7, AMD’s Ryzen CPUs getting updates on performance, cache and frequency probably.

AMD has said in the past that we will see a Zen 1 refresh before the jump to Zen 2 architecture and here it is the Ryzen 2nd gen.

James Prior, who now is a senior product manager at AMD, had an interview about Ryzen 2 the future generations AMD CPUs coming in 2018 and 2019 and also the possible need for yet another motherboard upgrade for the users to be able to use the new products.

For now AMD is said to be supporting the AM4 motherboard socket through 2020. So All The Customers will be able to remove their Ryzen chip and drop in a Next Gen Ryzen CPU model with a BIOS flash supporting the newer CPU. 

He said “And after they got the fundamentals worked out, they peeled off part of it, started them working on the next-generation micro-architecture.”

“Zen, a brand new architecture, came on Globalfoundries 14 nanometer process, a brand new process at the same time,” he added.

“We’re going to do an optimization. We’ve got a new process from Globalfoundries — they already announced it — we started talking about that as well. We’re going to come in, but it won’t be the next-gen micro-architecture, but it will be an improvement of what we’ve got today. That’s what’s going to happen next, so we’re getting ready for that now.”

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