That could be as well - if they don't completely stop production of Zen3, just taper it down. Nothing wrong with an older generation, particularly if you are on a budget. The only issue i see with that is that production costs won't really drop from where they are now - so there is a floor to where the cost for these could fall to, and the big benefit of jumping process nodes is that, theoretically anyway, you get more performance out of that same production cost. But one generation back, that isn't uncommon at all... and if you are Intel, you milk an architecture and node for at least 7 generations, maybe more. (i kid, i kid, but only a little bit)Yeah we'll see. I'm impressed with AMD that AM4 lived this long, but I don't see them cranking out new product for it. But who knows I am often wrong.
Not sure if that'd be possible. the CPU is expecting to run on PCIe 5.0. Even the CPU Lanes would be running out of spec. Mind you, PCIe4 is probably more than enough for current day needs, but I don't see them supporting it.What if they make Zen 4 cores for AM4 sockets but stuck on PCIE 4?