The launch of AMD’s Zen 5 based Granite Ridge family of processors is clearly drawing near. Asus has begun the process of rolling out support for the next-gen chips to its latest enthusiast tier X670E motherboards. The public release of supporting BIOSes indicates the chips could be released at basically any time.

The eagle-eyed hardware leaker HXL spotted the release of the BIOS series over at the Asus ROG forums. There have been seven BIOSes released so far—all for Asus ROG boards. All of them include the latest AGESA update, which is named FireRangePi.

With this news, just how close are we to Zen 5’s release? Publicly, AMD has only said it’s aiming for a launch in the second half of 2024. AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su’s Computex keynote on June 3 would be a logical forum to r…