AMD is slightly delaying its Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs ‘out of an abundance of caution’

Jul 25, 2024 03:00 AM - 5 months ago 137441

AMD was group to motorboat its caller Zen 5 processors on July 31st, including nan 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 9950X, a spot it’s calling “the world’s astir powerful desktop user processor.” Instead, it’s now announcing a one- to two-week hold “out of an abundance of caution.” The Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X will now motorboat connected August 8th, while nan Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X will spell connected waste connected August 15th.

This is not because AMD’s recovered immoderate issues pinch nan existent chips, spokesperson Stacy MacDiarmid tells The Verge. Rather, AMD discovered immoderate of its chips didn’t spell done each of nan due testing procedures, and nan institution wants to make judge they do.

Here’s nan afloat connection from AMD computing and graphics SVP Jack Huynh:

We admit nan excitement astir Ryzen 9000 bid processors. During last checks, we recovered nan first accumulation units that were shipped to our transmission partners did not meet our afloat value expectations. Out of an abundance of be aware and to support nan highest value experiences for each Ryzen user, we are moving pinch our transmission partners to switch nan first accumulation units pinch caller units. As a result, location will beryllium a short hold successful unit availability. The Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X processors will now spell connected waste connected August 8th and nan Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X processors will spell on-sale connected August 15th. We pridefulness ourselves successful providing a high-quality acquisition for each Ryzen user, and we look guardant to our fans having a awesome acquisition pinch nan caller Ryzen 9000 series.

AMD already recalled nan chips that needed nan further testing earlier they could spell connected sale, and it sounds for illustration that testing is going smoothly; AMD’s engineers are assured nan chips won’t beryllium delayed further, according to MacDiarmid.

AMD’s caller desktop chips besides see nan Ryzen 9 9900X, Ryzen 7 9700X, and Ryzen 5 9600X.

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I tin understand why AMD mightiness consciousness nan request (and opportunity) to beryllium other cautious correct now, rumor aliases not. Intel is still dealing pinch nan fallout from its sometimes unstable 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors, including nan Core i9-13900K and i9-14900K, which is turning retired to beryllium worse than we thought. While Intel has yet identified nan guidelines cause, a spot won’t get until August, and there’s apparently nary hole for chips that are already unstable.

Tom’s Hardware reports that those crashing Intel chips person been permanently degraded and will request to beryllium returned to Intel; we’ve reached retired to Intel pinch a database of questions astir really it’s handling nan situation.

AMD is astir to motorboat its Zen 5 laptop chips, too, codenamed Strix Point and formally known arsenic Ryzen AI 9 300. AMD precocious revealed a caller higher-end spot successful that lineup, nan Ryzen AI 9 HX 375, pinch a much powerful 55 TOPS NPU.