AMD delays its Ryzen 9000 launch due to unspecified quality issue — new launch in August; chipmaker pulls back all units shipped globally for quality checks [Updated]
AMD announced today that it has delayed its Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 launch due to an unspecified quality issue. As a result, AMD tells us it has pulled back all Ryzen 9000 units it has delivered to retailers and OEMs worldwide. The company will now launch the Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X processors on August 8, while the higher-end Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X will be delayed until August 15. We have AMD’s official statement below, but we have also learned additional important details — like that the company discovered the issue during its packaging testing flow.
This is an unprecedented move for AMD, at least in recent history. During final processor checks, AMD discovered an unspecified quality issue with the Ryzen 9000 processors that had slipped past its internal inspection processes. Chips with the issue were then delivered for the first wave of retail products.
AMD says that out of an abundance of caution and to ensure that not a single chip with a quality issue is delivered to a customer, it is now pulling back all Ryzen 9000 chips it has shipped globally to replace them with fresh units. The Ryzen AI 300 mobile processors remain on track for launch at the end of the month.
