The report makes the claim that the X670 chipset, made by ASMedia, should be making an appearance at the end of next year and should properly embrace new technologies such as PCI-E 4.0 and USB 3.2. Although these developments are out there and available it stands to reason that it will take a while for them to bed in comfortably as a new standard.
The chipset market is known to be fairly low margin and so it stands to reason that after this short busman’s holiday AMD would be returning their focus to what they do best.