AMD provides upgrade path to Zen with new business PC chips

AMD's new 7th Generation Pro chips have hooks to let PC users easily upgrade to next-generation Zen chips that could come out next year.The new Pro chips, code-named Bristol Ridge, are for business desktops, and will appear in PCs from HP and Lenovo. The ability to easily upgrade is a big deal because it lets users avoid buying new PCs in order to get the Zen chips when they come out.It'll work like this: users buy a desktop with the new AMD Pro chip, but upgrade to Zen later on by replacing chi