ecmaster76
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It was a bit of a logistical nightmare for AMD more than anything else. Hard to predict cause well they not are manufacturing the memory and the manufacturer of course will say everything is looking good for their end, since the exclusivity contract is in place, there is nothing AMD could do about it.
Not strictly true. Anything is possible through a good contract in terms of deadlines, penalties, etc. In fact if Vega RX hits with Samsung HBM then I expect they exercised such a provision.
Of course, that would only offset their damage since once they have finalized the design and especially after tape-out they are stuck with that memory tech regardless of any shortcomings (unless they hedge with multiple memory controllers but that's not cheap either)