Delays on an upcoming piece of hardware are nothing new. So when AMD pushed its Zen 5-powered Ryzen 9000 series CPUs back by a week or two for failing a final stage of checks, we weren't entirely surprised, but definitely curious: What could possibly have caused them to be pushed back at such a late stage?
A possible answer is that, rather embarrassingly, there may have been a "mistake at the printers". An early, unofficial review, that now looks to have been taken down, posted to BiliBili (via Tom's Hardware) showed images of what appears to be a Ryzen 7 9700X with the laser-etched markings on the heatspreader denoting it as a "Ryzen 9 7900X". Whoopsie.
