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Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB

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Re: Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB

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Could 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.

Re: Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB

#8

Could 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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