Nvidia, AMD consider reviving old chips to combat soaring PC costs

At CES 2026, AMD and Nvidia both signaled that they’re considering bringing back older chip technologies to battle the sudden shortages and extreme price hikes battering the PC ecosystem right know.

I warned y’all this could happen.

We were chatting about reports of AMD resurrecting older B650 motherboards in a recent episode of our Full Nerd podcast. And, as part of the discussion, I brought up that chip vendors like AMD and Intel are already mixing older silicon into modern lineups in somewhat sneaky ways.