The AMD Ryzen 9000 series of processing chips that was announced during the Computex Taipei event that was supposed to be launched next week, July 31, has been delayed for a week due to issues with the processing chips that have been on the market.
However, it does not mean that AMD will not show new details about their latest desktop processing chips, which are seen to come with native support for the latest data transmission technologies and also more efficient use of electricity.
AMD Ryzen 9000 uses their latest processing chip, which is AMD Zen 5 and still uses the "chiplet" design where it combines the use of several small processing chips developed using a connection called Infinity Fabric to build a full-sized processing chip.
This technology has been used since the AMD Ryzen 3000 series of processing chips, and continues until now to allow AMD to build certain components without affecting other parts of the processing chip.
For example, for the AMD Ryzen 9000, although the processor part is built using TSMC's new (4nm) N4P process, it still uses the previous I/O processor chip (plug-in controller on the motherboard) which was built using the 6nm process shown in AMD Ryzen 7000 series of chips. This is seen as one of AMD's ways of reducing the development costs of their processing chips.
The advantage of using the N5P process can be seen in terms of the use of electricity. According to AMD, their Ryzen 9000 processor chip series is estimated to come with 22 percent lower electricity consumption compared to the previous AMD Ryzen 7000 series.
AMD Ryzen 9000 also has 28 PCIe 5.0 lanes natively, which is the fastest data transmission technology on the market so far, four more than the 24 lanes on the previous AMD Ryzen 7000 series of processing chips.
Technically, this means that a computer powered by an AMD Ryzen 9000 processing chip can use one graphics card that uses 16 PCIe 5.0 lanes together with two PCIe 5.0 SSD storage with full performance (14GB/s data read rate) without problems .
In terms of motherboard support, AMD confirmed that the AMD Ryzen 9000 still uses the AM5 platform, and this means that it supports motherboards that use the old AMD-600 series chipsets (X670, B650), along with the new AMD- 800 (X870, B850) which will be launched together with this processing chip.
AMD has also promised that the AM5 platform will be supported until at least 2027, so your existing computer can still be used with a new CPU update if needed.
Similar to the AMD Ryzen 7000 processing chip, this series of processing chips also comes with a built-in graphics chip that allows this chip to be used without a graphics card to get output on the display first before you install the graphics card.
As reported, the AMD Ryzen 9000 processor chip series consisting of four CPU models will first go on sale on August 8 and August 15.