Earlier this month, news broke that AMD had removed all markings on its consumer Ryzen 7000 desktop PC processors that mentioned its chips were made in Taiwan, a move largely seen as a response to demands from the People's Republic of China.
It represents yet another company acquiescing to the People's Republic of China's demand that products produced in Taiwan be labeled "Made in China," a requirement often imposed on Taiwanese products amid contentious cross-strait relations. Some believed the change would only apply to AMD processors shipped to China, while the company's other processors would still be labeled "Diffused [made] in Taiwan," but AMD said the change applies to all of its processors. (Diffuse refers to the actual silicon processing chip manufacturing process).
An AMD spokesperson said, "AMD will eliminate diffuse country marking on all new CPU and APU products in 2023 to align with the product marking process for our other products." In all of AMD's cutting-edge products, these silicon chips are handed over to TSMC in Taiwan for manufacturing.
As you can see in the image below (via @Zed_Wang) (the processor on the right has the new markup), the "DiffusedinTaiwan" line is now just omitted from the top of the processor, while the other text has not been realigned to close the gap. It's worth noting that AMD still labels the processors as "Made in Malaysia," which indicates where the processor chips are integrated into the final package.
Sources close to the matter tell us that the decision is part of AMD's efforts to better align the production methods of its existing AMD products with new products from Xilinx, which it acquired for $35 billion in February 2022. It is worth noting that Xilinx products do not have a silk screen manufacturing country, a change that will unify the company's entire product line.
It's common for any given processor not to have a country of manufacture stamped on it, so removing the stamp is certainly not impossible -- chips from Intel and other companies, for example, often don't have a country of manufacture stamped on them.
Although AMD's new chip marking strategy is not openly declared to be a political issue, there is no doubt that it also "resolves" the long-standing problem of marking products shipped to China.
It is worth noting that AMD was rumored to have delayed the launch of Radeon RX7900 in China because Taiwan was listed as a manufacturing country on the packaging. PC peripheral manufacturer Corsair also offended the Chinese public's emotions due to its packaging, prompting it to publicly apologize for "printing errors."