AMD will leave some customers out in the cold. It even ignored 2020 hardware.

Lately it’s been Intel was on the tongues of all PC enthusiasts. All because of the faulty 13th and 14th generation Intel Core processors, where selected models may have problems with stability and degradation. This resulted in a loss of customer trust and a significant drop in the company’s value.

AMD will only help owners of the newest PCs

However, it seems that the competition also has a lot going for it. As we reported last week, a serious “Sinkclose” security flaw has been discovered in AMD processors released since 2006. And while the Reds have known about the problem for a long time, only a fraction of CPUs will see a security patch.

Sinkclose poses a great threat because a successful an attack using this vulnerability remains undetected and is difficult to remove. Even formatting the disk won’t help, you have to use a physical programmer on the motherboard’s memory chip or replace it completely. AMD was informed about this 10 months ago.

Of course, the Americans listened to the researchers and software updates have already been released for some processors, and more are on the way. However, it will only cover the latest processors.. Desktop users with CPUs older than the Ryzen 5000 series are left out in the cold.

Chips such as AMD Ryzen 1000, Ryzen 2000, and Ryzen 3000 and AMD Threadripper 1000 and 2000 will not receive the update. The reason? They are too old and their support period has already ended. On the one hand, it is logical, on the other hand, the oldest of them premiered in 2017, and the youngest in 2020. So they are not archaic.

Of course, AMD may still change its mind under the pressure of negative feedback from users. and journalists, similarly to the AM4 platforms, which were not supposed to support newer processors. Either way, such behavior is surprising, because Releasing a patch for all chipsets would be an easy way to win over fans and rub Intel’s nose in it.