AMD today released a statement in China on the scandal involving Chinese notebook OEM Chuwi mislabeling Ryzen 5000 series mobile processor models as Ryzen 7000 series. You can read all about the scandal in our older article , but to summarize, the company was found selling notebooks with cheap Zen 2 Ryzen 5 5500U processors with the processor name strings modified in the BIOS to falsely show Ryzen 5 7430U, a Zen 3 chip released almost three years later. This attempt at deception also covered product marketing, and Ryzen 7000 series case badges on the notebook chassis.

AMD, in its Chinese-language statement to the Chinese press, as reported by Hong Kong-based HKEPC, came down hard on the malpractice by Chuwi. The company said that this behavior by Chuwi was in no form authorized by AMD; that the company has strict and legally-binding agreements with its OEMs over the handling of the AMD brand, product labels, or product promotion; and condemned the behavior, saying that such acts damage consumer confidence in AMD as a brand. It ended the statement saying that the company reserves the right to pursue legal action against those involved. The machine translated statement by AMD follows: