News Lenovo Locks Threadripper 5000 Pro CPUs to P620 Workstation Systems

[Admin]

Lenovo has enabled PSB within its P620 workstation pre-builts, preventing the Threadripper 5000 CPUs used in the systems to work in any other computer.

Lenovo Locks Threadripper 5000 Pro CPUs to P620 Workstation Systems : Read more

 

[hotaru.hino]

A friendly reminder that any publicly traded company by default is not your friend. Unless you happen to be a majority shareholder.

 

[spiketheaardvark]

But, why? I can't think of any compelling reason to do this. How is this supposed to get Lenovo more money? Surely no one is going to be making money from buying a big workstation and pulling the processor for resale. Maybe I've not got what it takes to be a businessman or criminal genius.

 

[hotaru.hino]

But, why? I can't think of any compelling reason to do this. How is this supposed to get Lenovo more money? Surely no one is going to be making money from buying a big workstation and pulling the processor for resale. Maybe I've not got what it takes to be a businessman or criminal genius.

Vendor lock in.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

I saw this on Linus tech tips of the month or so ago. They suck for doing this

 

[Deleted member 431422]

A friendly reminder that any publicly traded company by default is not your friend. Unless you happen to be a majority shareholder.

I did wonder when AMD is going to copy Intel. Didn't take them long.