At Computex 2016, AMD representatives not only demonstrated Summit Ridge processors samples apart from the infrastructure, but also to keep them "behind the scenes" as part of demonstration systems that play the video during the performance of company management.
During the May events for investors AMD representatives also admitted that the samples of processors with Zen architecture will be delivered key customers this quarter, their number will increase, but the status of shipped processors will remain the same in the third quarter - it will be engineering samples. So, count on the availability of commodity processors could only be in the fourth quarter this year. A first full year of receipt of the proceeds from Zen processor sales was to be in 2017. That is, as early as next year, sales of Summit Ridge should be well under way.
From the pages of Phoronix responsible for the development of AMD's driver for the platform open source, John Bridgman said that he had no information about the delay of Zen announcement. Processors should be available later this year, and the delivery of engineering samples are already being implemented. In fact, he tried to repeat word for word the earlier statements of his superiors.