alt Hacker NewsIt isn't hard. We offered as well. Full BIOS access even.
Another neocloud, that is funded directly by AMD, also offered to buy him boxes. He refused. It had to come from AMD. That's absurd and extortionist.
Long thread here: https://x.com/HotAisle/status/1880467322848137295
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> He refused. It had to come from AMD. That's absurd and extortionist.
I'm on the wrong side of the Twitter wall to read the source, but that doesn't sound absurd. Extortionist, maybe. Hotz's major complaint (last time I checked, anyway) is pretty close to one I have - AMD appears to have between little and no strategic interest in consumer grade graphics cards having strong GPGPU support leading to random crashes from the kernel drivers and a certain attitude of "meh, whatever" from AMD corporate when dealing with that.
I doubt any specific boxes or testing regime are his complaint, he'd be much more worried about whether AMD management have any interest in companies like his succeeding. Third parties providing some support doesn't sound like it'd cut it. The process of being burned by AMD leaves one a little leery of any alleged support without some serious guarantees that more major changes are afoot in their management view.
Maybe he needs the AMD brand for his fundraising.
To add, AMD only makes _parts_ of an MI300X server.
It's like asking a tire manufacturer to give you a car for free.