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Re:AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Not... by tw04 on Friday January 15, 2021 @10:12AM (#25791825)
I would bet it's more likely that the OEM who is using and asked for those chips demanded they be a 5000 series part so that customers weren't skipping it over because of "last gen".

I completely agree it's dishonest, I'm not sure you can blame AMD though. If Dell (I'm not saying this was Dell), came to you and said: either this chip is 5000 or I don't carry ANY of your chips, you give them what they want.

To me this shows AMD has learned its lesson: without the OEMs onboard you aren't going anywhere. Selling individual chips to gamers is profitable, but that only goes so far.

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Re:AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Not... by csharptwdec19 on Friday January 15, 2021 @10:16AM (#25791870)
They probably also learned it from their time in the GPU arena, where such shenanigans have been in play for a long time (although usually moreso by the green team)
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