GPD blames AMD for postpone in Win Max 2 hand-held PC shipments

What simply came about? It's uncommon for a organization to single out considered one of its companions for blame over a behind schedule product, but that is what GPD has performed. The hand held/ultraportable PC maker has named AMD because the reason why some GPD Win Max 2 fashions had been not on time, claiming Team Red breached its agreement with the aid of no longer imparting enough Ryzen 7 7840U APUs for the machines.

As noticed with the aid of VideoCardz, GPD apologized on its crowdfunding page to customers who ordered its Win Max 2 but haven't begun to acquire the gadgets.

The business enterprise says that the trouble is because of its upstream provider violating their agreement. It's claimed that the Ryzen 7 7840U, used within the more powerful version of the Win Max 2, become delivered in batches, however the upstream supplier changed into not able to supply the second one batch.

The word is going directly to particularly country that AMD breached the contract and could not supply the second batch of APUs to GPD's upstream provider, leaving it not able to make production.

All variations of the Win Max 2 with Ryzen 7 7840U chips have been impacted. Shipments of handhelds powered through the 7640U have now not been affected as GPD has that configuration in stock.

Unsurprisingly, several much less-than-happy backers answered to the publish. One asks for an envisioned delivery time and whether GPD will offer expedited delivery, in any other case, they'll cancel their order. Another individual stated to cancel their order if it still hasn't shipped, even as one backer asked that each their orders be canceled.

The GPD WIN Max 2's crowdfunding purpose of $three million turned into smashed ultimate year through 5,655 backers who pledged simply over $five.5 million.

Back in March, AMD introduced that the Zen4 and RDNA three-based Ryzen 7040HS Phoenix APU series release date was being pushed back from that month to April. There have additionally been availability troubles with the Phoenix U collection.

The final essential news we heard approximately GPD was in June when the Shenzhen-based totally agency stated it turned into running on a pocket-pleasant eGPU dock that could increase the pix performance of many of its devices.