New Ryzen CPUs for AM4 may be back on the menu as AMD considers reintroducing select

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AMD’s Ryzen chief hints at more Zen 3 AM4 chips as DDR5 prices climb



AMD may be looking at bringing back older AM4 desktop parts based on Zen 3. At a CES 2026 roundtable attended by Tom’s Hardware, AMD’s David McAfee said the company is exploring ways to “reintroduce products” into the AM4 platform so gamers can upgrade without replacing the whole system.

McAfee also pointed to internal usage data that shows many players are still on Ryzen 2000 and 3000 processors. Retail partners are also seeing more CPU-only purchases, which suggests buyers are trying to extend existing PCs instead of jumping platforms.
 

AMD “[is] certainly looking at everything that [it] can do to bring more supply and kind of reintroduce products back into the [AM4] ecosystem to satisfy the demands of gamers that maybe want that significant upgrade in their AM4 platform without having to rebuild their entire system”, further adding that he thinks this is “definitely something [AMD is] very actively working on.”
— AMD Davic McAffee via Tom’s Hardware

If AMD does restart wider AM4 supply, it extends the platform’s life again. In a way, AM4 is a victim of its own success. It already received new SKUs only a few months ago, so this would not look like a full “bring-up from zero” effort.

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