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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 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] bossjack 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's not confirmed. Its just pessimism, albeit very well argued and precedented.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Yup, the "fix" seems to be to limit boost to 5.3GHz or so, and there may be other mitigations as well. If it has anything to do with branch prediction or other eager optimizations, we could see further degradations like with the fixes for Spectre and other attacks.