AMD Responds to Asetek's R9 Fury X Sales Cease-and-Desist

Sihastru · Dec 28, 2015

Cybrnook2002 said:
And the argument is, talking to AMD is barking up the wrong tree. [...] AMD is not at fault. AMD has paid CMI for a pump and cooling unit that meets the bill. CMI just decided to offer this pump, not AMD's fault.

It is very rare today to buy something as complex as a video card that would be 100% made by one company. AMD actually doesn't make anything on the Fury X. Or any other card for that matter. They are the card's designers, but everything is made by other companies.

Cybrnook2002 said:
CMI just decided to offer this pump, not AMD's fault.

Is this fanboy logic? Everything that goes into a product goes through a battery of rigorous tests. You can't say it's not your fault when you're the designer of the product. Trust me, patents are checked in the first stages of design.

Cybrnook2002 · Dec 28, 2015

Sihastru said:
It is very rare today to buy something as complex as a video card that would be 100% made by one company. AMD actually doesn't make anything on the Fury X. Or any other card for that matter. They are the card's designers, but everything is made by other companies.

And? I am not sure I ever commented on what AMD physically made on their GPU's?

Sihastru said:
Is this fanboy logic? Everything that goes into a product goes through a battery of rigorous tests. You can't say it's not your fault when you're the designer of the product. Trust me, patents are checked in the first stages of design.

You seem to be missing what I said. No, this is not "Fanboy" logic, but thanks for trying to stir the pot anyways.

My point was that CM was subcontracted to meet a requirement provided by AMD. CM provided this pump to satisfy the requirement. This is not AMD's fault, seems simple enough to understand what I am trying to say.

By your logic, you are saying AMD designed the pump, which is wrong. To even comment further and feed you, if their was a patent that was infringed in the "first stages", wouldn't this have been discovered when filing?

Anyways, I am tired of talking into black holes about GPU's. They are the most polarizing things in tech forums, and frankly I am tired of it.

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