AMD Delays Ryzen 9000: “Did Not Meet Quality Expectations”

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A delay of two weeks is infinitely more preferable to nebulous issues down the line. No one will remember this in a few months. Commence unclutching pearls.

Intel: delays performance-botching patch until after AMD's launch. AMD: delays launch until after Intel's performance-botching patch.

AMD: Delays launch to meet quality expectations Intel: Delays acknowledgement of issues to meet sales expectations

“A delayed CPU is eventually good, but a rushed CPU is bad forever” ~ Shigeru Miyamoto, 1913 - 1914

Makes sense for AMD to take their time with this, especially since the competition isn't so compelling right now.

AMD: we'll wait for the intel patch for the reviews 🧐

As someone that had to do a RMA of a 1800x due a memory bug that affected some of the inicial production units, finding this before retail sells them is a good thing.

Like a flight delay. People rarely realize they might as well DIE if the flight is not delayed.

I’m confused, why didn’t they just increase the voltage of early chips to degrading levels so they could hit performance/stability targets? That’s what Intel does and that’s been going well for them!

AMD learning from others' mistakes. :)

I do validation for automotive chips and the timeline doesn’t surprise me too much. I’d speculate that there’s a process parameter that’s causing issues and wasn’t being reliably caught by the testers. So when validation does the last bulk unit screen on production parts, before launch, some units pop up bad and they have to raise a red flag. The failure rate also needs to be high enough that C-suite doesn’t think they can brush it under a rug. Chances are they updated the testers to catch the issue and affected parts will be binned down.

Pedantic post of the day: August 16 is as mid-August as it can get. There are 15 days before the 16th in August, and 15 days after.

I love the fact that Steve simply asks the question, "trying to find gold samples for reviews?"

"A delayed CPU is eventually good, while a rushed one is forever bad." -Shigeru Miyamoto, gaming industry legend

"Corrected an issue where we would have missed memeing on Intel's 'fixed' CPUs in benchmark graphs."

Imagining the logistics involved in pulling products back, evalute and ship out again, 15 days sounds like an impressive turnaround time. AMD must be super confident it's just the first batch.

You know what? On the one hand I'm super disappointed because I'm overdue a CPU upgrade, but on the other hand, I would rather that companies release products when they're ready as opposed to when they look best on a balance sheet.

I do wonder if the Intel news did not happen...would this have happened ? :)

The ad for the AIO at the beginning of the video is so authentically honest and positive, with pertinent information about the quality of the main fundamentals of the product that one would be concerned with, and it may be the best YouTube sponsor spot I've seen as far as making me want a product based on the presentation