AMD’s delay of the launch of its Ryzen 9000 processors – with the CPUs already shipped being recalled from retailers and PC makers – might apparently be attributable to a easy typo, when you can consider the (a number of) studies floating round on the market.
Nicely, we are saying a easy typo, however this isn’t a mistake with the packaging and field, however the precise identify of the processor on the chip itself (though there could also be extra to all this than simply the typo, and we’ll come again to that).
As an alternative of a Ryzen 7 9700X processor, we will see an image of a CPU (within the under submit on X, from leaker HXL) the place AMD has mislabelled it because the Ryzen 9 9700X.
The true purpose for the Ryzen 9000 delay ….@IanCutress is true. pic.twitter.com/oM6ePWU6WCJuly 28, 2024
Tom’s {Hardware} observes that is from a rogue, early evaluate on Bilibili (in China), additional noting that Ryzen 5 9600X chips have additionally been errantly engraved as ‘Ryzen 9’ fashions.
The Ryzen 9 label is, in fact, reserved for the high-end chips within the Zen 5 household, which at launch would be the Ryzen 9 9950X and 9900X.
Beforehand, different sources have pinned the blame for the recall of Ryzen 9000 processors on AMD’s typo on an apparently giant scale, together with Ian Cutress on X (TechTechPotato, ex-Anandtech) as talked about in HXL’s submit.
Initially, AMD was set to unleash Ryzen 9000 processors on July 31, however that has been delayed to a staggered launch subsequent month (on August 8, adopted by August 15, for the Ryzen 5 and seven fashions and Ryzen 9 fashions respectively).
Evaluation: Odd information – however excellent news? Undoubtedly the previous, however perhaps not the latter
That is all a bit odd. AMD hasn’t formally revealed any purpose for the Ryzen 9000 recall, as an alternative issuing a obscure message that the chips “didn’t meet our full high quality expectations” and we guess being misnamed (barely) might match that invoice.
You would additional argue the rationale that Workforce Purple hasn’t admitted what’s occurred right here – if that is so – is as a result of it’s embarrassing. If we’d have been stood on an AMD manufacturing line with these chips coming by, glancing them over, we’re certain we’d have seen a ‘Ryzen 9 9700X’ – to anybody with some passing familiarity with Workforce Purple’s processors, certainly that mistake would stand out like a sore thumb? (Apparently not).
Nevertheless, even when there appears to be a strong quantity of proof of those chip typos, as Tom’s raises, there’s additionally the likelihood that this isn’t the one downside with the Zen 5 processors.
Certainly, if the entire recall is about fixing typos, that might truly be nice information – sure, it’s a really foolish mistake, however not less than there are not any underlying technical points with Ryzen 9000 CPUs buried deep below the hood (cough, Intel, cough) that consumers might need to fret about.
However, it could be the case that there are typos, and additionally different potential problems with a technical nature. In spite of everything, AMD’s official assertion on the recall used some language that made us suppose this was the case. Primarily the phrase that the recall was initiated “out of an abundance of warning and to keep up the best high quality experiences for each Ryzen consumer” – which hardly appears to suit a chip having Ryzen 9 written on it as an alternative of Ryzen 7 or 5. Does it?
Maybe now these mismarked processors have come to mild, AMD shall be issuing an extra assertion to make clear what’s gone on right here. We’ve received a sense we’d hear one thing later as we speak.
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