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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

Delaying the launch of your CPUs because you have problems with the BIOS is never a good sign. And, as Yuri said, we know how AMD struggled with it when they launched their Zen processors.

The only positives to take from this (you know, trying to look at the bright side) is that 1) AMD must have found a big problem and will have it fixed before launch; and 2) We know that they'll keep working on fixing all the kinks that appear as they've done it with Zen 1 to 3.

The only negative is that the motherboards are already shipping to retail, and that means that most if not all boards available at launch and shortly after will need to get updated.

Correct me if I am wrong... But I think this BIOS/Chipset is an AMD in-house design rather than contracted from another manufacturer?

Would explain a lot.

AMD has always had buggy BIOS's though... To the point where they would unlock hidden/disabled CPU cores on the Phenom 2.

Still better than the old VIA or SiS chipsets though... Still have PTSD over them.

Well, it doesn't happen often but I'll have to correct you. It looks like they learned from the X570 chipset and have gone back to ASMedia to develop the new ones: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amds-multi-chiplet-x670-x670e-strategy

Here's how AMD’s new chipset architecture works. The base chiplet for X670 and X670E is known as the Promontory 21 (PROM21) chipset, which is built by 3rd party supplier ASMedia. One of these chips comes in a 19x19mm FCBGA package featuring a maximum power rating of 7W.