AMD Had to Re-Engineer the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition Due to the Original Fab Process No Longer Being Available

[Peter_Brosdahl]

While the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition may share the exact specifications with the original model, there is a notable change in its manufacturing process. Those who may have believed that AMD simply flipped the switch to restart fabbing of the iconic processor should know that is not the case, and the chip […]

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[igor_kavinski]

Pretty insane that they thought the effort was necessary for an old Zen3 chiplet rather than doing something slightly more ambitious and useful like getting 7500X3D backported to AM4.

Maybe they were sitting on a huge inventory of Zen 3 CCDs?