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> What sales, they hardly had any stock available. Out of curiosity, are you trying to buy a chip, or a system? If the latter, is it possible that it's a prob
by gwd 6y ago
> What sales, they hardly had any stock available.
Out of curiosity, are you trying to buy a chip, or a system?
If the latter, is it possible that it's a problem with PC makers not assembling enough AMD systems, rather than AMD not making enough chips?
I'm asking because for a long time Intel would have deals where they'd give PC manufacturers a hefty discount if AMD were less than 10% of their sales; such that the only way for AMD to make it worthwhile for HP / Dell / whoever to make more than 10% AMD systems would be to pay them to put their chips in machines (negative costs). They were taken to court over it and punished, but that doesn't mean they aren't doing it again.
Particularly as apparently they're still saying what they did wasn't wrong in the first place:
https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-is-still-fighting-a-10-year-old-euro106-billion-antitrust-fine-for-cpu-rebates/ https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-is-still-fighting-a-10-year-ol...
EDIT: What's with the downvotes? Intel did a pretty despicable thing to AMD; it's documented in a court case. And they're still fighting to say that what they did was fine. I think people deserve to know about that kind of behavior, and I don't think it's unreasonable to ask if it's still going on.
- hutattedonmyarm 6y agoNot the person you replied to but: I’ve been trying to get the same one. No chance. Luckily the shop I ordered from has a queue system so I don’t have to hunt. Just today I got an email that their supplier is delayed the next shipment and they have no idea when anything is going to arrive
- eloff 6y agoIt's the chip in this case. Intel did a pretty dirty thing there, how they haven't been slapped down for abusing a monopoly is beyond me. Do antitrust laws have any teeth in the US anymore?
- llampx 6y agoNope. At some point geopolitics came into the picture and the US decided it was going to protect its own bigcorps at any cost. The hidden threat was (and is) that China would never do such a thing as punish its own big corporations for anticompetitive, unethical and illegal practices.