AMD is far from some benevolent angel of a company, but between keeping cpu sockets viable for as long as possible, and maintaining open source GPU drivers, they are least keep hope alive that upgradeable PCs aren’t completely dead for consumers.
Engineered obsolescence is rarely a good idea. If the motherboard specs or s9cket don’t need to change to support the new chip, keep it. If the only thing motherboard manufacturers have going for them is an artificially required piece of hardware, then they deserve to be outpaced by their competitors.
AMD is far from some benevolent angel of a company, but between keeping cpu sockets viable for as long as possible, and maintaining open source GPU drivers, they are least keep hope alive that upgradeable PCs aren’t completely dead for consumers.
It’s a great move for AMD, not so much for their board partners.
When budgets are stretched, anything that would go towards a new board can be spent instead on a higher tier new CPU.
Engineered obsolescence is rarely a good idea. If the motherboard specs or s9cket don’t need to change to support the new chip, keep it. If the only thing motherboard manufacturers have going for them is an artificially required piece of hardware, then they deserve to be outpaced by their competitors.