aMD would have delayed the Ryzen 9 3950X because it is not reaching the Boost frequency

It seems that AMD has delayed the Ryzen 9 3950X because they can not get it to reach its Boost frequency, so TSMC has nothing to do with it.

Last week the rumor that TSMC had more demand than chip production capacity at 7nm. Shortly after it was announced that the Ryzen 9 3950X was delayed until November, by AMD. These two consecutive reports suggested that the delay in these processors was due to foundry problems. Now it has been leaked that no, that the delay is really due to AMD.

According to sources linked to the motherboard sector, AMD cannot make this processor work at the advertised frequency. Let's remember all the dust that was generated a few weeks ago with the frequency of the Ryzen 3000. There was a lot of talk about the processors not operating at the correct frequencies. To the point that AMD had to rush out a BIOS to fix the problem.

AMD delays the Ryzen 9 3950X because it can't get it to hit the advertised frequency

The problem of the Boost frequencies is already corrected by the company with a BIOS update. But the delay of this processor is not clear. Remember that this 16-core, 32-thread processor works at a base frequency of 3.5GHz and in Boost mode it reaches 4.7GHz. If its launch has been delayed due to not reaching Boost mode, it is that it is far from the specified frequency.

“Last week's news that TSMC extended chip delivery time to 7nm due to strong demand sparked immediate speculation that it was the cause of AMD delaying the launch of its Ryzen 9 3950X.

The real reason for the delay is due to unsatisfactory clock frequencies, which has led AMD to adjust the design of the 16-core processor, according to our sources linked to a motherboard manufacturer ”, publish Digitimes