Comment on 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

• AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Any large scale manufacturer like AMD knows about what % of defective returns they get. They’re using the heat on Intel to help make their numbers look better.

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  • lemmeout@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Actually, I think it’s not about defect numbers. This is about delaying until Intel releases the microcode update. They want to be compared after the (potentially) performance tanking update from Intel. Which is hilarious because Intel gave a date after AMD’s initial launch date.

    I think it’s also fair as a lot of reviewers aren’t going to bother retesting after Intel releases updates and comparing with AMD after the 9000 series hype has died down, if they had just recently did so for the AMD launch.

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    • DacoTaco@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      … You just contradicted yourself there with the timeline/dates lol

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      • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’ve misunderstood. The original release date was set, then Intel announced the microcode update, which was after the original release date, then AMD announced that they’d be delaying the release date, and that new release date is after the microcode update.

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• Woovie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hanlon’s razor, don’t overthink it. No need for mindless conspiracy theories based on zero data. If it’s aajor concern we’ll hear something no doubt.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think you mean Occam’s Razor. AMD signaling responsibility is a simpler explanation as a “dunk” on Intel, them having a similar issue as Intel seems far too coincidental. They’re on completely different nodes, so there’s no reason their issues would be related.

    So my take is that AMD thinks Intel’s fix is going to degrade performance significantly, so they want to wait to ensure their launch is as impactful as possible (bigger perf delta, more time to find hardware issues, etc). If AMD can show strength and reliability while Intel suffers, they could snap up much more market share (and improve product availability at launch).

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• lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  no u

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• DogWater@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Coincidences are real my guy.

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