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AMD ’s former aged frailty chairperson and worldwide manager of Radeon has come out with some strong Word against Nvidia . Scott Herkelman call Nvidia “ the GPU cartel ” in response to astory from the Wall Street Journalin which Nvidia ’s customer claim that it delays GPU shipments in retaliation for those customer shit with other supplier .
The accusation in doubt comes from Jonathan Ross , CEO of AI chip startup Groq , who said , “ a lot of people that we meet with say that if Nvidia were to hear that we were forgather , they would disavow it . The problem is you have to pay Nvidia a year in advance , and you may get your ironware in a class , or it may take longer , and it ’s , ‘ Aw shucks , you ’re buy from someone else , and I guess it ’s snuff it to take a little longer . ' ”
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Herkelman reply to Tom ’s computer hardware ’s insurance coverage of the story on X ( formerly Twitter ) , read , “ this happens more than you expect , Nvidia does this with DC customers , [ manufacturers ] , [ add - in board partners ] , press , and resellers . ”
This bump more than you gestate , NVIDIA does this with DC customers , OEMs , AIBs , press , and resellers . They ascertain from GPP to not put it into written material . They just don't ship after a customer has ordered . They are the GPU corporate trust and they keep in line all supply .
& mdash ; Scott Herkelman ( @sherkelman)February 27 , 2024
This behavior calls back to the GeForce Partner Program ( GPP ) , as luff out by Herkelman . Nvidia has canceled the GPP following backlash over it allegedly take Nvidia ’s partner to move out its gaming branding from all non - Nvidia GPUs . This is n’t the first time Herkelman has come out against the GPP.He free a statement in 2018shortly after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) and European Union Commission start respond to complaints about the program .
“ They get wind from GPP to not put it into writing , ” Herkelman extend . “ They just do n’t ship after a client has ordered . They are the GPU cartel and they master all supply . ”
Herkelman ’s claim about restricting unit of measurement from press is specially interesting , as we cognize about a clean-cut exercise of that happening in the past . In recent 2020 , Hardware Unboxed , a YouTube channel dedicated to personal computer hardware reviews and analytic thinking , experience an email that it would no longer receive review units from Nvidia . It stated : “ Our Founders Edition boards and other Nvidia products are being allocated to media outlets that recognize the changing landscape painting of gaming and the features that are important to gamers and anyone corrupt a GPU today . ”
In Nvidia ’s latest earnings call , CEO Jensen Huang aver , “ We allocate fairly . We do the good we can to allocate fairly , and to avoid allocating unnecessarily , ” asreported by Fortune . We ’ve reached out to Nvidia , and it worsen to comment on the story .
