Re:System76 Will Start Designing and Building Its Own Linux ...
by pgeorgi on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:02PM
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> I understand the ubiquity of Intel-based hardware, but I don't full get why not even an option of an AMD-based system is available.
Because it's hard enough to deal with a single silicon vendor, so they're looking for the one with the most bang for the buck and that was, before Ryzen, definitely Intel.
They might be ramping up with AMD now (or not, I don't know), but when you don't have pre-existing business relationships that takes a while before you're even at the stage of building prototypes. That space is rather complicated.
Because it's hard enough to deal with a single silicon vendor, so they're looking for the one with the most bang for the buck and that was, before Ryzen, definitely Intel.
They might be ramping up with AMD now (or not, I don't know), but when you don't have pre-existing business relationships that takes a while before you're even at the stage of building prototypes. That space is rather complicated.