AMD announced last month that it had missed its original ship date for its flagship Ryzen 7040HS laptop processors, also known as the "Phoenix" series, but that it would ship those processors in April. However, it is now May, and we haven't seen the Phoenix chips in the market at retailers. Today we had a chance to ask AMD for comment on the matter. A company representative told us that the company's original statement referred to the timeline for shipping the chips to OEMs, who will then deliver the finished systems to retail. AMD says this is already well underway.
"We did start to ramp production of those Ryzen 7040 Series [chips]. Our OEM partners have started shipping those systems. Largely, the 7040HS systems. So those should hit etail and retail over the next several weeks. We started shipping last quarter, and those systems should be available in the next several weeks." — AMD representative to Tom's Hardware.
