An MSI representative, without taking names, confirmed that the company's AMD 800-series chipset motherboards will "be ready for future CPUs," in response to a question on whether they support "Zen 6." This would be the first near-confirmation from a motherboard manufacturer that AMD is readying its Ryzen "Olympic Ridge" desktop processor for Socket AM5. This would make "Zen 6" the third microarchitecture for the socket, in line with how AMD released three microarchitectures for its previous Socket AM4.

"Olympic Ridge" will be a chiplet-based processor much like all AMD Ryzen desktop chips going back to the Ryzen 3000 series. These are expected to feature "Zen 6" cores in CPU complex dies (CCDs) built on the 2 nm TSMC N2 process, with AMD expected to increase CPU core counts per CCD for the first time in all these generations. The chip is also expected to introduce a new client I/O die (cIOD) very likely built on the 4 nm TSMC N4P node, which will come with significantly lower TDP than the current one built on 6 nm, and come with a revamped set of DDR5 memory controllers that supports higher speeds. All this said, AMD is rumored to be working on an even newer desktop socket, the new AM6, with a pin count in the range of 2,100 pins. It's likely that "Zen 7" will be designed for this socket.

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