AMD Removes Taiwan Label from CPUs, States Change Not Made to Please China

 Earlier this month, there was news about AMD making a change to its consumer Ryzen 7000 desktop PC processors. They removed markings that mentioned the chips being manufactured in Taiwan. This move was widely believed to be a response to demands from the People's Republic of China.

This change gained attention in China, where many people thought that another company had given in to China's request that products made in Taiwan should be labeled as 'Made in China.' This demand is often placed on Taiwanese products because of the strained relationship between the two regions. Some people speculated that this change would only affect AMD processors sent to China, and the rest of the world would still see the label 'Diffused in Taiwan.' However, AMD clarified that this alteration applies to all its processors and isn't driven by political reasons.

An AMD spokesperson explained to Tom's Hardware, "AMD removed the country of diffusion from all new CPU and APU products in 2023 to align with the product marking process for our other products." This means that the company will no longer mark (silkscreen) any of its consumer or enterprise processors with the country where the silicon die inside the chip was originally made (diffused). For all of AMD's cutting-edge products, these silicon dies are produced in Taiwan at TSMC.

smci stock smci tsmc stock amd radeon rx 580 amd radeon rx 7900 xtx amd ryzen 5 7600x amd radeon hd 6970 amd graphics card