Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB
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Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB
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#3Could it be AMDs doing behind the scenes? I don't see the motivation for Lenovo here but I do see AMD asking vendors to do this to prevent OEM CPUs completing with retail CPUs.
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#4lenovo again.. when it's not shipping with rootkits (they did it twice!) and bloatware, it's about limiting HW
a company to boycott
Re: Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB
#5All in the name of "security" of course.
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#6Could it be AMDs doing behind the scenes? I don't see the motivation for Lenovo here but I do see AMD asking vendors to do this to prevent OEM CPUs completing with retail CPUs.
The feature was implemented in 2017 the only vendors that are using it are lenovo and dell. With lenovo being the only one using it on lower tier cpus than epyc.
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Re: Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB
#8Could it be AMDs doing behind the scenes? I don't see the motivation for Lenovo here but I do see AMD asking vendors to do this to prevent OEM CPUs completing with retail CPUs.
The feature was implemented in 2017 the only vendors that are using it are lenovo and dell. With lenovo being the only one using it on lower tier cpus than epyc.
I imagine its Lenovo asking for lower prices on Chinese market bound CPUs and AMD being super happy killing secondary market after seeing Intel server/workstation CPUs flooding out of Asia.
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Do I have news for you about the device you typed this on…
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Out of curiosity, which vendors do you find acceptable?