- Insider says that ASUS is expected to ramp up AM4 and LGA 1700 board production next year, with DDR4 RAM expected to make a comeback.
- Ryzen 5000 processors are already selling well, and AMD may continue production for the last generation of processors, with Intel following suit.
- Other board manufacturers may follow in ASUS’s path of last-gen board production.
The AI fiasco has caused an uproar in the PC building community, and it seems as if buying new hardware has become almost impossible. PC components, especially new RAM prices, have been running hot, and as things go, they’re not going to get down any time soon.
Now that you can get a PS5 and some spare change or even the latest MacBook M4 Air for the price of a 64GB DDR5 RAM kit, gamers are being forced to fall back to DDR4 RAMs, which are the only cheap option they can resort to.
With a worldwide shortage of DDR5 RAM expected, ASUS is now ramping up production for AM4 and LGA 1700 Motherboards, as 2026 may be the year when we see a DDR4 comeback.
Why it matters: DDR5 RAM has been around for nearly 5 years, and instead of looking forward, we’re actually going back to the DDR4 era, which was first introduced more than a decade ago.
Insiders on Board Forums reported this news, stating that boards like the B550 and the entry-level A520 are expected to be increased in production, especially since gamers will have to resort to budget builds in 2026.
For the Intel side, DDR4 boards like B760 or H610 will go into fashion since a few of the LGA 1700 boards support DDR5 RAMs too.
The Ryzen 5000 series is also selling, and as of early 2025, it made 50% of the total AMD CPU sales. The same trend is expected to continue going into 2026.
Seeing this, AMD and Intel may even decide to keep up the production of the last-generation processors since sales for the current ones will definitely be lower due to high RAM prices and whatnot.
For DDR4 RAM, manufacturers are expected to keep up DDR4 RAM production, and even Samsung is delaying the end-of-life for them. As for the motherboards, other manufacturers apart from ASUS are also likely to follow suit.
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