AMD Zen Reportedly Delayed Until Early Next Year

Written by Michael Larabel in AMD on 8 June 2016 at 09:20 AM EDT. 62 Comments
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According to reports, AMD's Zen processors have been delayed until the start of the next year and it's also affecting Intel's Kabylake launch.

While we were looking for AMD's much anticipated Zen processors were expected to launch by the end of Q3 according to information from AMD just recently, now it's believed that Zen might not be shipping until January 2017.

Via information today from Digitimes, the launch schedule for Zen has been pushed back until January 2017 at the annual CES show while Kabylake is also being pushed back until that point too.

The reason for the few month delay for both Zen and Kabylake is said to be due to supply chain issues and slow market demand. It's really sad to hear Zen being delayed while Kabylake is just Intel's successor to Skylake before Cannonlake and is less to get excited about, but now the Intel Linux developers will have a few extra months to ensure the Kabylake support is in good standing for launch, particularly on the graphics side.
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