Atari announced this week that the Atari VCS would switch to an AMD Ryzen Embedded R1000 APU, officially ditching the Bristol Ridge A10 it had planned to use last year. While the R1000 will bring better performance and support for modern features (like 4K video playback), it brings a heavy negative to the effervescent console - delays.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Atari-VCS-to-use-AMD-Ryzen-Embedded-R1000-SoC-still-has-no-firm-release-date.418085.0.html
Why is it these scams love AMD silicon? Are they trying to latch onto underdog status for their pitches, or something? Beyond faking their pitch video (no working hardware, no working software), they haven't exactly been open, while still begging for crowdfunding.
At least they were a tiny bit better at their deceit than the SmashZ folks. Those people have been at it so long, their first attempt was still claiming Bulldozer, while running Intel Atom hardware.
Think about it. In the time these two "projects" have been running, a Chinese company specified and ordered a semi-custom Zen + Vega + DDR5 SoC from AMD (with more GPU power than any Ryzen APU on the market), and ship it in a working product (Subor Z). Yet these two scams are still stringing the gullible along. News websites are still reporting their minor "accomplishments" as if they mean anything.
Unfortunately I pre-ordered the VCS back in 2017. I am sure that by the time amd releases their 5nm SOC in 2025, it will finally ship.
Asrock just beat VCS a.k.a Vaporware Con Scameroo.
Current Atari is not the same Atari from back in the 80s anymore.
Now run by a bunch of patent trolls using Atari trademark.