AMD just commented on its recent Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU shortages, and the culprit is pretty unexpected.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

AMD's new gaming CPU champion -- the Ryzen 7 9800X3D -- has shortages, and it's because Intel made a 'horrible product' says execs at CES 2025.

The Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been a phenomenal success among what had been a fairly underwhelming Zen 5 lineup – we called it the new gaming

At CES 2025, Intel has announced that Arrow Lake, the CPU architecture behind the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, is coming to gaming laptops.

Intel introduced the world to the desktop version of Arrow Lake in October 2024, with five Core Ultra 200S chips, many featuring the “K” suffix that signals that they can be overclocked. Eventually, Intel plans to ship about 30 Core Ultra 200S chips, executives said at CES.

Now a few weeks later, AMD is pinning the Ryzen 7 9800X3D shortage on Arrow Lake, though perhaps not entirely. During the round table discussion, McAfee called the demand for the 9800X3D "unprecedented" and noted that AMD has been ramping its manufacturing capacity, both for 9800X3D and also the Ryzen 7000X3D series.

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,