ASRock and Biostar ready for Ryzen 9000, but is AMD ready?

Additional motherboard vendors confirm support for ‘next-gen’ Ryzen CPUs.

Following ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte, ASRock and Biostar have also issued press releases confirming support for AMD’s new Ryzen series. Both motherboard vendors did not explicitly mention the Ryzen 9000 series in their press releases, however, ASRock made this ‘mistake’ by sharing this information on the motherboard support page.

As we can see, the latest AGESA 1.1.7.0 supports Ryzen 9000 specifically, although this name was not confirmed by AMD yet. Essentially, this with Gigabyte also confirming the name gives pretty strong evidence that the next gen desktop series will indeed be called like this. Interestingly, this may not be true for the mobile series.

Ryzen 9000 support, Source: ASRock

This update comes a month before the highly anticipated Computex 2024 keynote, which will be delivered by the CEO of AMD. It seems plausible that motherboard vendors were gearing up for an early showcase at Computex, and this update could very well be a part of that preparation. There is hardly any reason for these companies to talk about Ryzen 9000 other than being ready for live demos of Ryzen 9000 at Computex show floor.

Ryzen 9000 support, Source: Biostar

The desktop Ryzen 9000 series known as Granite Ridge represents just one of four consumer-grade products already known. At some stage, we can expect the release of desktop APUs, potentially based on either Strix Point or Halo silicon.  However, when motherboard vendors mention next-gen CPU support, they likely refer specifically to Granite Ridge for now. What may be worth noting is that the AGESA 1.1.7.0 firmware is codenamed FireRangePi, which is desktop silicon packaged for mobile use in the upcoming 2025 high-end laptop series.

Source: ASRock , Biostar