Still no AMD options in case anybody was wondering. I've heard several explanations circulating on the internet, some from purported people "in the know", like Intel or OEM employees.
- OEMs assume Ryzen was a fluke and don't trust that AMD can maintain the position so they'll wait "1-2 more years" - they've been offering great performance at lower price points for ~4 years now, enough time to make a decision.
- 2nd gen. Ryzen "failed ISV certifications" so it can't be delivered in workstations lines, even if some of those very lines ended up having i5+iGPU based models - no comment.
- It's so expensive to design a new model based on AMD that it doesn't make sense for OEMs - no comment.
- Thunderbolt controller comes for free with Intel chipsets but has to be payed for with AMD - it's an $8 chip presumably on laptops costing thousands.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 8.0 ms ] thread- OEMs assume Ryzen was a fluke and don't trust that AMD can maintain the position so they'll wait "1-2 more years" - they've been offering great performance at lower price points for ~4 years now, enough time to make a decision.
- 2nd gen. Ryzen "failed ISV certifications" so it can't be delivered in workstations lines, even if some of those very lines ended up having i5+iGPU based models - no comment.
- It's so expensive to design a new model based on AMD that it doesn't make sense for OEMs - no comment.
- Thunderbolt controller comes for free with Intel chipsets but has to be payed for with AMD - it's an $8 chip presumably on laptops costing thousands.