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Re:AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs by basilgohar on Monday January 06, 2020 @09:49PM (#21976312)
That's really unfortunate. I appreciate you sharing that with me. I hope this gets more attention.

But is the BIOS something controlled by AMD or the OEMs? My whole point in this and other threads it that OEMs are handling things poorly, and that's what's affecting AMDs prospects in the mobile market. The BIOS is a highly device-specific firmware, so that's why I'm asking.

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Re:AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs by bubblethink on Monday January 06, 2020 @10:05PM (#21976404)
The development of the BIOS is (typically) done by a company like AMI that interfaces with silicon manufacturers like AMD/Intel and laptop manufacturers like Lenovo/Dell. All of them are to blame for BIOS bugs since almost all laptop platforms (barring Chromebooks and a few others) are locked down in a way that nobody other than them can fix the issues.
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