Confirmed: AMD will loan chips to help with motherboard updates for Ryzen APUs
(PCWorld)

If you can`t get your shiny new Ryzen APU on the motherboard you bought last year, don`t panic: AMD officials have confirmed that they will indeed ship you an older, dual-core chip to help you make it work.The problem relates to AMD`s new Ryzen APU and how it interacts with older stocks of motherboards. It`s a classic chicken-and-egg situation: Some older motherboards won`t recognize the new Ryzen APU without a BIOS update. And the only way to update that BIOS is to boot the system with a chip that it recognizes.While some advanced motherboards allow updating a BIOS without a CPU, many budget boards don`t. For those few cases, AMD said it would offer a `boot kit` (once you`ve provided a qualifying APU serial number and other information). That `boot kit,` as it turns out, is actually an AM4-based Bristol Ridge APU. In a post by `Hansmuffin` at tech site arstechnica.com, a user wrote that AMD was sending a previous-generation APU to help perform the update.To read this article in full, please click here