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[alienspecies]

Fairly self-explanatory but I can't find any detail on this. Alienware, as an example, sells the Aurora R10 which is a B550a board. Gamers Nexus did a breakdown and from what they've said it looks like a B450 + PCIe 4.0 support.

If this actually the case, or is it more of a B550 offshoot or a B450 offshoot? If the former will it B550a be given access to the Zen4 agesa updates? If it's the latter, will it be left without the Zen3 upgrade path despite its B550 moniker?

Thanks in advance if anyone can answer this.

[colesdav]

Of course it will.
https://community.amd.com/community/gaming/blog/2020/05/07/the-exciting-future-of-amd-socket-am4 
Apart from one thing - that post needs corrected.
"In 2016, we made a pretty bold commitment to you: we would continue to support AMD Socket AM4 until 2020."
it should say "through 2020."

Based on this post:
https://community.amd.com/community/gaming/blog/2019/05/27/socket-am4-platform-longevity-getting-ryz... 
"With the launch of the AM4 platform in 2016, we at AMD made a commitment to maintain and support socket AM4 through 2020."

So ... who knows?