TC McQueen
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AMD's doing a GDC talk on how to optimize programs for their Ryzen CPUs, and according to the blurb, the chips should be out by then:
Source - Anandtech
Mid-late February/Early March release would make them fairly competitive with Intel, especially if AMD manages to avoid massive distribution problems/shortages.
Source - Anandtech
The GDC event runs from February 27th to March 3rd, and currently the AMD talk is not on the exact schedule yet, so it could appear any day during the event (so be wary if anyone says Feb 27th). At this time AMD has not disclosed an exact date either, but it would be an interesting time to announce the new set of Ryzen CPUs right in the middle of both GDC and Mobile World Congress which is also during that week. It would mean that Ryzen news may end up being buried under other GDC and smartphone announcements.
Mid-late February/Early March release would make them fairly competitive with Intel, especially if AMD manages to avoid massive distribution problems/shortages.