• IcyToes@sh.itjust.works
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    13 days ago

    If you can offer a 40% discount and still make profit, your prices are probably 3 times the cost.

    If you cannot go to another supplier, you have vendor lock in.

    I’m an AMD guy, so I got no skin in the game defending Intel, but if you’re shilling this much for TSMC, you aren’t really bringing an unbiased opinion.

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      13 days ago

      If you can offer a 40% discount and still make profit

      Maybe they didn’t? Or at least maybe not much.

      if you’re shilling this much for TSMC

      What? How am I shilling for TSMC? And I’m 100% an AMD guy myself, I freaking stuck to AMD during the whole Buldozer shitty period, because I didn’t want an Intel monopoly. And I bought AMD stock when they revealed Ryzen.

      So I do NOT encourage a TSMC monopoly either.

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        13 days ago

        A business easily offers a 40% discount. You didn’t critically assess that, ask how, and give off vibes it was a charitable and Intel was ungrateful. TMSC while an interesting business is still a big corp with profitability at heart.

        Even if Intel aren’t the good guys, you cannot assume TMSC is. I like AMD, but I’m under no illusion they could throw consumers under the bus tomorrow for self interest. Right now, it’s king for Linux hardware though.