Intel may be incentivizing mini PC makers to delay or not build AMD-based models

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Ian Cutress's original comment the article is based on: https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1249819270537715719

Is it dishonest to call incentives bribery ?

Yup & Intel got dinged ~2 billion for it last time AMD jumped ahead with Athlon vs P4. It took 5 years for AMD to recoup that money during which time Intel used it to retool & revamp their processor line with Core. The problem is that 2 billion is probably peanuts vs the kind of market share gains AMD should have rightfully had.

The funny thing is, there are already smaller OEM's changing to AMD.

It would be interesting to see them come bigger than the bigger OEM's

There also might be simpler explanation and that is development takes time and multiple platforms take multiple of development cost.

Bribery is actually a pretty simple explanation.

Especially since there's a rich history of it happening with Intel

Its not bribery, its MCP (Meet Comp Program)!

Nowadays its no longer in a form of clear $cash money$ bribe, instead Intel offers cross promotion (including you in their marketing, pushing your product to their clients), bundle deals (buy hiend motherboard, receive CPU and/or SSD for free), or bonuses (sell X amount at $MSRP, receive free product bumping your margins by as much as 20-30%).

BTW That $1.45 billion European Commission (EC) penalty? Intel not only never paid that, but actually managed to fight and bribe their way to possibility of overturning it altogether. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/09/06/victory-in...

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