AMD Responds to WSJ ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ Story
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Re: AMD Responds to WSJ ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ Story
#2Earlier HN thread on the WSJ article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20300100
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#3This was my impression from the beginning, but I'm glad to hear it directly from AMD.
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#4I'm sure the timing of this exposé (of a years-old story) has nothing to do with AMD's imminent release of a product that will seriously threaten if not outright beat Intel for years to come.
FUD
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#5>The Wall Street Journal story omits important factual details, including the fact that AMD put significant protections in place to protect its intellectual property (IP) and prevent valuable IP from being misused or reverse engineered to develop future generations of processors.
Without knowing what those protections are, I'm not sure we have learned much.
Also the US government not objecting, I'm not sure changes the gist of the story does it?
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#6Transferring lower speed tech still could be a huge jump from what China had, the main point is architecture is hard to put a value to it. For what is known, maybe slower means lowering the hertz
Re: AMD Responds to WSJ ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ Story
#7I'm sure the timing of this exposé (of a years-old story) has nothing to do with AMD's imminent release of a product that will seriously threaten if not outright beat Intel for years to come. FUD
Someone wanted to short some AMD.
Re: AMD Responds to WSJ ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ Story
#8I'm sure the timing of this exposé (of a years-old story) has nothing to do with AMD's imminent release of a product that will seriously threaten if not outright beat Intel for years to come. FUD
There's got to be a law or something where for a given thread there is some user who has a conspiracy theory about it.
Re: AMD Responds to WSJ ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ Story
#9>The Wall Street Journal story omits important factual details, including the fact that AMD put significant protections in place to protect its intellectual property (IP) and prevent valuable IP from being misused or reverse engineered to develop future generations of processors. Without knowing what those protections are, I'm not sure we have learned much. Also the US government not objecting, I'm not sure changes t…
The two key claims by AMD -- that they only transferred lower performing technology and that all the things were blessed by US government -- were cited nearly verbatim in the WSJ story. I can't find anything in the AMD statement that adds meaningfully to the case; it's a non-rebutting rebuttal.
Whatever. If they really did unzip for the Chinese military as the WSJ claims then AMD will soon find itself competing with Chinese government subsidized derivatives of their IP and have next to no meaningful recourse with any governing authority.
Re: AMD Responds to WSJ ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ Story
#10>The Wall Street Journal story omits important factual details, including the fact that AMD put significant protections in place to protect its intellectual property (IP) and prevent valuable IP from being misused or reverse engineered to develop future generations of processors. Without knowing what those protections are, I'm not sure we have learned much. Also the US government not objecting, I'm not sure changes t…
Without knowing what those protections are, we haven't learned much from either the story or the response.
The gist of the story wasn't just that a lot was shared; it was that it was shared nefariously, borderline illegally, and it was all AMD's fault and intention. It essentially painted them as mercenary traitors.
I admit, the original story does sound bad. But I'm also aware of how easy it is to paint such a picture, ando find it hard to believe the US Government couldn't have shut this down if it really wanted to.