AMD Ryzen Threadripper Delidding

[Armenius]

It's probably a grey area given NDA is still in effect?

There is no testing of the CPU, though. AMD was probably just embarrassed that this video showed 4 dies under the hood, not thinking, instead of the 2 everyone was expecting.

 

[thesmokingman]

There is no testing of the CPU, though. AMD was probably just embarrassed that this video showed 4 dies under the hood, not thinking, instead of the 2 everyone was expecting.

Why would they be embarrassed? Where's the conspiracy that you imply they wouldn't want or could not have foreseen that someone would delid the chip as if no one would ever delid a soldered chip?

 

[drescherjm]

I think they would be a liittle annoyed that they gave the guy a free CPU to test and he destroyed it.

Or did he obtain it from some other means?

 

[chithanh]

AMD initially gave him explicit permission to delid and post the video online, they just later reversed on this.