“We knew we built a great part.

“So, the demand has been a little higher than we forecasted.”

Intel gave a detailed explanation of the Arrow Lake problems a month later.

AMD blames Intel’s horrible CPUs for Ryzen 7 9800X3D shortages

Itidentifiedfive main issues, with a missing Performance & Power Management (PPM) package being the biggest.

The company rolled out firmware updates to address the situation.

Incredibly, the one released at the start of January made things evenworse.

AMD recentlyannouncedthe 16-core Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 12-core Ryzen 9 9900X3D.