Did a silly typo really cause AMD Ryzen 9000 series delay?

A week ago, it was reported that AMD was delaying the release of its Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs by one to two weeks due to a need for additional testing on some units that initially didn’t meet quality standards.

But recent development suggests that a silly typo may be among the culprits of such delays. The error, where Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X chips from the Ryzen 9000 series were mistakenly labeled as Ryzen 9 (via Tom’s Hardware), has reportedly forced AMD to recall and re-screen the affected units.

Or, maybe, as the company hasn’t confirmed the rumor, so it’s best to take this with a grain of salt. Still, correcting simple typos—an error that could’ve been avoided in the first place— shouldn’t be such a complex fix.

Jack Huynh, AMD’s senior VP and GM for Computing and Graphics, mentioned last week that the Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X will now launch on August 8th, while the Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X will be available from August 15th.

“During final checks, we found the initial production units that were shipped to our channel partners did not meet our full quality expectations,” he says on X, stating that the team is working “to replace initial production units with fresh units.”

The AMD Ryzen 9000 Series desktop processors, built on the “Zen 5” architecture, offer a 16% performance boost over previous models, with the Ryzen 9 9950X being the fastest consumer desktop processor available. The series also includes the Ryzen AI 300 processors, featuring a powerful NPU with 50 TOPs (trillion operations per second) for advanced AI tasks.