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Did you even read the article? AMD is shipping everything unlocked, it's the OEMs that can choose to active this feature. Certainly it's a debate whether such
by tifadg1 6y ago
Did you even read the article? AMD is shipping everything unlocked, it's the OEMs that can choose to active this feature.
Certainly it's a debate whether such feature should exist in the first place, but presumably OEMs are the driving force behind this, so they see a need.
- intricatedetail 6y agoAMD has created this "feature" out of greed.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 6y agoThis is the work of AMD together with the OEMs. AMD wins because it destroys the secondary market, driving up the prices they can charge for new CPUs. The OEMs win because once you've put your CPUs into Dell servers, you can't just buy different servers and move your CPUs over (e.g. to reuse CPUs from servers that broke in other ways or were decomissioned for other reasons), so you have a higher hurdle when switching to a competitor. Payment from AMD could also be involved, because I think AMD has more to win here. You as a CPU buyer, or a buyer of services that cost more if CPUs cost more (aka everything), lose, as does the environment.