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Intel may be incentivizing mini PC makers to delay or not build AMD-based models
- 4cao 7y agoIan Cutress's original comment the article is based on: https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1249819270537715719 https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1249819270537715719
- agumonkey 7y agoIs it dishonest to call incentives bribery ?
- vlovich123 7y agoYup & Intel got dinged ~2 billion for it last time AMD jumped ahead with Athlon vs P4. It took 5 years for AMD to recoup that money during which time Intel used it to retool & revamp their processor line with Core. The problem is that 2 billion is probably peanuts vs the kind of market share gains AMD should have rightfully had.
- lmilcin 7y agoThere also might be simpler explanation and that is development takes time and multiple platforms take multiple of development cost.
- BoiledCabbage 7y agoBribery is actually a pretty simple explanation.
- ajflores1604 7y agoEspecially since there's a rich history of it happening with Intel
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- rasz 7y agoIts not bribery, its MCP (Meet Comp Program)! Nowadays its no longer in a form of clear $cash money$ bribe, instead Intel offers cross promotion (including you in their marketing, pushing your product to their clients), bundle deals (buy hiend motherboard, receive CPU and/or SSD for free), or bonuses (sell X amount at $MSRP, receive free product bumping your margins by as much as 20-30%). BTW That $1.45 billion European Commission (EC) penalty? Intel not only never paid that, but actually managed to fight and bribe their way to possibility of overturning it altogether. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/09/06/victory-intel-eu-court-orders-11bn-fine-re-examined/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/09/06/victory-in...
- NicoJuicy 6y agoThe funny thing is, there are already smaller OEM's changing to AMD. It would be interesting to see them come bigger than the bigger OEM's