--- title: AMD promised AM5 support until 2029, and the memory... description: AMD extended AM5 socket support to 2029 at Computex 2026, continuing a pattern of increasingly long platform lifespans. Historically, each AMD socket has been... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/amd-promised-am5-support-until-2029-and-the-memory-crisis-might-not-let-it-stop-there-muw6emxql twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AMD promised AM5 support until 2029, and the memory crisis might not let it stop there | daily.dev og:description: AMD extended AM5 socket support to 2029 at Computex 2026, continuing a pattern of increasingly long platform lifespans. Historically, each AMD socket has been... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/amd-promised-am5-support-until-2029-and-the-memory-crisis-might-not-let-it-stop-there-muw6emxql og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Muw6emxqL.png og:image:alt: AMD promised AM5 support until 2029, and the memory crisis might not let it stop there og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AMD promised AM5 support until 2029, and the memory crisis might not let it stop there **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AMD extended AM5 socket support to 2029 at Computex 2026, continuing a pattern of increasingly long platform lifespans. Historically, each AMD socket has been tied to a memory generation — AM2 with DDR2, AM3 with DDR3, AM4 with DDR4, and AM5 with DDR5. The expected successor AM6 would logically arrive with DDR6, but the ongoing DDR4-to-DDR5 transition crisis complicates that timeline. Three years after AM5 launched, DDR4 remains in production and DDR5 pricing has stayed higher than anticipated, meaning the economic conditions that would make an AM6 platform viable for mainstream builders may not materialize by 2029 even if AMD launches on schedule. This memory pricing dynamic — not AMD's generosity — is the real driver behind AM5's extended relevance, and it may push the platform even further into the future. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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