Reddit user ElectricalEmployer22 just posted on r/pcmasterrace a photograph of two AMD Ryzen 9000-series processors, which will compete with the best CPUs, in official retail packaging with the caption, “Just got them in store!!” A couple more boxes of similar shape and size are in the background, plus another box that looks like a motherboard or GPU, suggesting that the image was taken inside a stock room.
The caption and the image make it easy for the casual viewer to assume that the Reddit user bought AMD’s latest processors. However, the official sale date for these chips isn’t until two weeks later. So, as another Reddit user pointed out, the photographer is “either an employee, someone made a mistake, or this is a hoax.”
