AMD on HX3D chip shortages: ‘Competitor had built such a horrible [part]’

AMD’s world-beating 9800X3D chips destroyed the competition and promptly sold out. Why?

David McAfee, AMD’s corporate vice president and general manager of its Client Channel Business, and Frank Azor, the chief architect of gaming solutions and gaming marketing at AMD, sat down with reporters to give their answer: Intel’s competing Arrow Lake chip simply stunk.

In PCWorld’s review of the 9800X3D, we said that the chip obliterated Intel’s best. At the same time, supplies of the part ...