TL;DR: The global semiconductor shortage looks to have claimed another victim: AMD'southward lower-end CPU offerings. Company CEO Lisa Su said the situation is forcing squad carmine to prioritize its higher-end commercial and gaming processors, which are more in demand.

At an investor event earlier this week (via PCMag), Su was asked whether AMD would exist shipping more CPUs if it had extra scrap manufacturing capacity. "There is some compute that nosotros're leaving underserviced," she replied. "So, I would say particularly, if you await at some of the segments in the PC market, sort of the lower end of the PC market. We take prioritized some of the higher-terminate commercial SKUs and gaming SKUs and those kinds of things."

The desirable Ryzen 5000 line has been one of the more difficult PC components to notice at retail since they launched last Nov. They're also relatively expensive, with the cheapest Ryzen 5 5600X starting at $299.

"Probably the fact that the inventories are very lean throughout the supply chain, and then people are really now focused on, 'Hey, we're non ordering stuff to put it on the shelf, right? Nosotros're ordering stuff that end customers want,' and that's how we think most prioritization. Prioritizing sort of the end customer needs as we become forrad," Su added.

AMD could be pushing out more than CPUs sooner rather than later. The company last week confirmed that information technology is gradually transitioning the AMD Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors to a 'B2' revision over the next six months. These won't offer any noticeable changes compared to the electric current chips on the B0 stepping—it was initially thought they could be an XT refresh—but they might feature slight adjustments that improve yields, helping increase supply. Su said AMD hopes to add more manufacturing chapters over the "side by side couple of months."