AMD has delayed the launch of its Ryzen 9000 desktop processors after discovering that production units initially shipped to channel partners weren't up to snuff.

Out of an abundance of caution, AMD said it was holding back the official arrival of its six- and eight-core Ryzen 9600X and 9700X CPUs until August 8, and its 12- and 16-core Ryzen 9900X and 9950X CPUs until August 15, Jack Huynh, AMD's SVP and GM of computing and graphics said on Xitter today.

The chips, announced at Computex earlier this year, were set to hit store shelves on July 31.

"We identified an issue with our initial production testing for Ryzen 9000 series processors that could result in a small number of parts reaching market that do not meet our quality standards," AMD spokesperson Matthew Hurwitz, told The Register.

"As a result, we have updated our test flow to include additional screening to ensure we deliver products that meet our quality standards. We are working with our channel partners to replace the initial production units with fresh units."

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What exactly was missed in testing isn't exactly clear, though considering how quickly AMD expects to get new chips out to distributors and into customers' hands, it seems the House of Zen has at least found a quick fix to the problem. Whether it'll be a lasting one remains to be seen.

While you wait, we took a closer look at the Zen 5 cores underpinning 9000-series Ryzen and AMD's upcoming Epyc 5 Turin chips, which you can find here.

AMD wouldn't be the only CPU vendor that's run into trouble as of late. The Ryzen 9000 delay comes just days after Intel promised to deliver a fix for its Raptor Lake desktop chips to resolve a bout of "stability issues" plaguing the platform.

Intel had previously admitted that some 13th and 14th-gen processors were behaving unusually. Now the chipmaker has pinned the blame on "elevated operating voltages" due to a faulty microcode algorithm sending incorrect voltage requests to the chip.

Intel has now promised a microcode patch to resolve the issue on K, KF, and KS SKU Raptor Lake parts. ®

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