If you’re referring to the BIOS issue, that was not really their fault, but the fault of some motherboard manufacturers being stingy with the memory on some BIOS’s.
The main issue was the limited memory on the BIOS chips. To include more CPU’s meant losing support for old chips, this could potentially get people trapped with a motherboard they didn’t have the right chip for, and no way of upgrading it, like if your CPU had died or you had sold it before updating your BIOS.
They ended up solving the issue by making a program where you could borrow a CPU from AMD to do the upgrade with. It surely cost them a lot of money, but that way they could have older motherboards get support for 5000 series.
After the shitshow with AM4 I’m sure they will be keeping their communication on this as vague as possible so as to temper people’s expectations
Shitshow? AM4 support has been legendary.
If you’re referring to the BIOS issue, that was not really their fault, but the fault of some motherboard manufacturers being stingy with the memory on some BIOS’s.
The main issue was the limited memory on the BIOS chips. To include more CPU’s meant losing support for old chips, this could potentially get people trapped with a motherboard they didn’t have the right chip for, and no way of upgrading it, like if your CPU had died or you had sold it before updating your BIOS.
They ended up solving the issue by making a program where you could borrow a CPU from AMD to do the upgrade with. It surely cost them a lot of money, but that way they could have older motherboards get support for 5000 series.