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LOL? What? Of course they can, they own the IP. Apple might have some tips and tricks to gain control over their value chain hm? Or Intel. Or Nvidia. Or... [insert pretty much any company].AMD can sell APUs, can't dictate where and how those APUs will be used.
This is a strategic choice, not impossibility. They can simply allow or disallow companies to release products with or without certain specs combined with their APUs. Intel created Ultrabook that way, for example. You set boundaries, you create product groups and force resellers to adhere.
AMD however is on a different form of logic, they think total freedom is the best way to get their product to better market share. It hasn't ever worked. But they keep at it, on some weird principle or something I don't know. Their GPU logic is the same wrt marketing. Its one WTF moment after another.
The only thing they have showing for that strategy is that they've always had revenue. Not profit, but revenue, certainly. Its also why after decades of pretty good products people still think of AMD as the lesser being of the 2 or 3 competitors. This is part of the reason why AMD is always competing on price even if they do have solid product. After all Zen isn't missing a featureset like GPUs do relative to Nvidia. It's missing its time to market, it dragged Vega along far too long, etc etc. All of this is timing and marketing strategy. And let's not even begin about the motherboard support fiasco that they keep choking on.
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