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Made me a shit load today, my favorite friend. Up over 9%.
Not unless they agreed with Intel, Nvidia, etc., to do so.
I don't think AMD is generally viewed as the good guy so much as they're viewed as the less bad guy, that's certainly how I view the situation.
There has often been a perception on this forum that AMD is some underdog and champion of the people. And that they are fighting the good fight against big bad Intel and NVIDIA. In truth, AMD does whatever it can get away with. Usually, it can't get away with doing what NVIDIA does because it's behind technologically and has to compete on price. When it doesn't, AMD will charge just as much as Intel or NVIDIA.
You don't understand what "price fixing" is if you think this is price fixing.
AMD really changed the landscape when it comes to CPUs especially in the server department by offering more cores during a time when Intel was stagnant. Also AMD unlocked ECC memory in their consumer CPUs which was a game changer for home servers.
That’s not price fixing…
Then I do not. I assume it was and obviously was wrong.
I think that's more your perception(and others) just in a different way. Whenever I see a comparison on behaviors that paints Nvidia(or Intel) in a bad light people jump to the conclusion that they think AMD is a saint which is ridiculous because no company is a saint and there's a huge gap between saint and less evil.
This was exactly what I was going to say. One of the main ways companies stay in business is by controlling inventory levels. It's the basic law of supply and demand. If anyone thinks that AMD (a publicly traded company) is going to flood the market with product because they're the "good guys" you're fooling yourself.
Clickbait trash. Article could be more actually titled, "AMD Practices Inventory Control Functions that have been Part of Standards and Practices for Hundreds of Years. "
There's a video of an AMD rep that knew the 4080 performance before release, then positioned the 7900XTX into the same pricing tier.
To make it even more fun, TSMC has very limited facilities, they make a lot of parts for a lot of people. So they have to further manage schedules because they can’t just switch between different orders from different companies on the fly. There is downtime, maintenance, retooling, and they have to leave room in the schedule if they accidentally botch a run and need to schedule some emergency batches. TSMC has a very full calendar and that’s why they get to charge what they do.
The definition is literally in the video.
Having inside knowledge of a competitor product to position your product before their release is wrong.
We're paying MSRP scalper pricing to prevent scalping. lol
Yes it is a common tactic to keep demand high, it’s been proven to improve sales. Artificial scarcity is a proven sales tactic, as it keeps demand and interest higher for longer.
That is at worst mild industrial espionage.
Yeah. It is literally a legal requirement that a publicly traded company charge the most the market will bare for their product. Not doing so is a common cause for lawsuits and CEO removals.
Well chiplets finally forced Intel to move on from quad-core CPUs as the standard after being stuck on them for what felt like a decade.
Doesn't matter. You don't have a choice other than: don't buy a video card or stop playing games. Eventually we're all going to have to get another one. Realistically most can hold out for 3-5 years, but past that point eventually we're all going to have to get another from the limited market or stop playing PC games.
