Shame AMD, Shame.
I haven’t watched the video, but my lukewarm take is that duopolies suck and having only two real players in the x86 CPU market has never been good. I was happy when Intel re-entered the discrete GPU market a few years ago (I say re-entered because they had the i740 cards in the 90s) because it meant we finally had a real competitor to Nvidia and AMD in that market.
I know ARM is supposed to be the CPU architecture of the future, but man, I wish we had a modern day equivalent to Cyrix or something in the x86 space. More competition is good.
Gone are the underdog days.
While it was obviously going to happen at some point, it still would have been nice if it happened later. Well, let’s see if Intel improves their behaviour now, since they can’t just assume everybody takes their shit automatically.
Not aure what’s up with AMD, but they are not the only one:
https://www.techpowerup.com/348400/no-ryzen-9950x3d2-for-techpowerup-gamers-nexus-or-computerbase
tl;dw?
Amd kicked off Gamersnexus from receiving CPUs and their direct support channel with AMD, so they have to go through the 3rd party now instead of talking with the Manufacturer directly
They say its because they reported on the Silicon manufacturing mafia
*Nexus
They changed their name so they could apply for AMD’s partner program.
Its gamer nexus Mexico branch with Esteban Borja.
AMD is now fascist. Not surprised… more corpo profit over-everything bullshit.
JayzTwoCents said they didn’t get CPUs either and isn’t really sure if this is a “blacklist” situation. Not going to lie, Steve kinda loves being the victim lately and I can’t help but feel like this is a bit sensationalist.
Performing neutral reviews of hardware and calling companies out for bad behavior is not “being the victim”. Stopping to send reviews samples had a direct negative impact to these third-party reviewers so we mostly have their “trust me bro” benchmarks
I don’t disagree. Does that make them “blacklisted” by AMD?
Yes that’s kind of what a blacklist is…
Not getting one product that other reviewers also didn’t get? I guess I had a more extreme definition of blacklist.
Wendell got his, then again some of his stuff (not all) caters to the audience AMD salivates over.
Not shitting on him, my man got me to look into and switch to cachyosI didn’t mean to imply no one got it. I believe der8auer got one as well.
Did jay say why he didnt get any? Did ltt get one?
Derbauer and local media did get one, just wondering if its an american branch issueSteve kinda loves being the victim lately
