Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB
by zrm on Sunday January 16, 2022 @02:59PM
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Customers often want to upgrade the processors in their servers.
Someone bought some Dell servers with 32-core processors. They upgrade to 64-core processors and have the old 32-core processors. You'd like to buy them to upgrade your servers which have 16-core processors. Sorry, even though the chips are otherwise completely identical, theirs came from a Dell and you have a Lenovo. But hey, you can buy the processors directly from Lenovo for only three times as much money.
Someone bought some Dell servers with 32-core processors. They upgrade to 64-core processors and have the old 32-core processors. You'd like to buy them to upgrade your servers which have 16-core processors. Sorry, even though the chips are otherwise completely identical, theirs came from a Dell and you have a Lenovo. But hey, you can buy the processors directly from Lenovo for only three times as much money.