AMD stalls Ryzen 9000 launch over poor chip quality

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Oh, actual QA? In 2024? In this economy?

AMD has delayed the launch of its Ryzen 9000 desktop processors after discovering that production units initially shipped to channel partners weren't up to snuff.

Out of an abundance of caution, AMD said it was holding back the official arrival of its six- and eight-core Ryzen 9600X and 9700X CPUs until August 8, and its 12- and 16-core Ryzen 9900X and 9950X CPUs until August 15, Jack Huynh, AMD's SVP and GM of computing and graphics"We identified an issue with our initial production testing for Ryzen 9000 series processors that could result in a small number of parts reaching market that do not meet our quality standards," AMD spokesperson...

While you wait, we took a closer look at the Zen 5 cores underpinning 9000-series Ryzen and AMD's upcoming Epyc 5 Turin chips, which you can findAMD says datacenter still king for profit margins amid AI buzz AMD wouldn't be the only CPU vendor that's run into trouble as of late. The Ryzen 9000 delay comes just days after IntelIntel had previously admitted that some 13th and 14th-gen processors were behaving unusually. Now the chipmaker has pinned the blame on"elevated operating voltages" due to a faulty microcode algorithm sending incorrect voltage requests to the chip.

Intel has now promised a microcode patch to resolve the issue on K, KF, and KS SKU Raptor Lake parts. ®Accelerate migration and go beyond virtualisation to cloud nativeAMD buys developer Silo AI in bid to match Nvidia's product rangeChina’s homebrew openKylin OS creates a cut for AI PCs

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