AMD sends phrase this afternoon that the corporate is delaying the launch of their Ryzen 9000 collection desktop processors. The first Zen 5 architecture-based desktop chips have been slated to launch subsequent week, on July 31st. But citing high quality points which can be important sufficient that AMD is even pulling again inventory already despatched to distributors, AMD is delaying the launch by one to 2 weeks. The Ryzen 9000 launch will now be a staggered launch, with the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X launching on August 8th, whereas the Ryzen 9 9900X and flagship Ryzen 9 9950X will launch per week after that, on August 15th.
The distinctive announcement, formally coming from AMD’s SVP and GM of Computing and Graphics, Jack Huynh, is brief and to the purpose. Ahead of the launch, AMD discovered that “the initial production units that were shipped to our channel partners did not meet our full quality expectations.” And, consequently, the corporate has wanted to delay the launch so as to rectify the problem.
Meanwhile, as a result of AMD had already distributed chips to their channel companions – distributors who then filter right down to retailers and system builders – that is technically a recall as nicely, as AMD wants to drag again the primary batch of chips and substitute them with recognized good items. That AMD has to primarily take a do-over on preliminary chip distribution is in the end what’s driving this delay; it takes the higher a part of a month to correctly seed retailers for a desktop CPU launch with even modest chip volumes, so AMD has to push the launch out to provide their provide chain time to catch up.
For the second, there aren’t any additional particulars on what the standard problem with the primary batch of chips is, what number of are affected, or what any form of repair might entail. Whatever the problem is, AMD is solely taking again all inventory and changing it with what they’re calling “fresh units.”
| AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Processors Zen 5 Microarchitecture (Granite Ridge) |
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| AnandTech | Cores / Threads |
Base Freq |
Turbo Freq |
L2 Cache |
L3 Cache |
Memory Support | TDP | Launch Date |
| Ryzen 9 9950X | 16C/32T | 4.3GHz | 5.7GHz | 16 MB | 64 MB | DDR5-5600 | 170W | 08/15 |
| Ryzen 9 9900X | 12C/24T | 4.4GHz | 5.6GHz | 12 MB | 64 MB | 120W | ||
| Ryzen 7 9700X | 8C/16T | 3.8GHz | 5.5GHz | 8 MB | 32 MB | 65W | 08/08 | |
| Ryzen 5 9600X | 6C/12T | 3.9GHz | 5.4GHz | 6 MB | 32 MB | 65W | ||
Importantly, nevertheless, this announcement is just for the Ryzen 9000 desktop processors, and not the Ryzen AI 300 cellular processors (Strix Point), that are nonetheless slated to launch subsequent week. A cellular chip recall can be a a lot larger problem (they’re in completed gadgets that would want important labor to transform), but in addition, each the brand new desktop and cellular Ryzen processors are being made on the identical TSMC N4 course of node, and have important overlap because of their shared use of the Zen 5 structure. To make sure, cellular and desktop are very totally different dies, nevertheless it does strongly suggest that regardless of the problem is, it’s not a design flaw or a fabrication flaw within the silicon itself.
That AMD is ready to re-stage the launch of the desktop Ryzen 9000 chips so rapidly – on the order of some weeks – additional factors to a difficulty a lot farther down the road. If certainly the problem isn’t on the silicon degree, then that leaves packaging and testing as the following most certainly wrongdoer. Whether which means AMD’s packaging companions had some form of problem assembling the multi-die chips, or if AMD discovered another problem that warrants additional checks stays to be seen. But it’ll positively be attention-grabbing to ultimately discover out the backstory right here. In specific I’m curious if AMD is being pressured to throw out the primary batch…
