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> At least 3 motherboard vendors are affected Boss says, "Do the thing." Engineer says, "The thing is out of spec!" Boss says, "Competitor is doing the thing
by lupusreal 3y ago
> At least 3 motherboard vendors are affected
Boss says, "Do the thing." Engineer says, "The thing is out of spec!" Boss says, "Competitor is doing the thing already and it works." Engineer does the thing.
- eqvinox 3y agoYes, but also no. The motherboard market is "timing-competitive", your product needs to be ready when the CPU launches, especially for the kind of flagship CPU that this specific issue is about. You can't wait and see what the competitors are doing.
- lupusreal 3y agoFair point. Maybe "This sort of thing worked fine in the past."
- crote 3y agoOr perhaps they're all copying from the same reference design?