Friday, March 17th 2017
AMD's Radeon Memory Business at a Standstill
AMD's Radeon branded memory business appears to be at a standstill, with no new product launches since 2015, and Radeon memory products out of stock (or nearly out of stock) at key retailers across North America.
When AMD was asked if it was planning to exit the memory business altogether, a company spokesperson replied that the memory is still being sold but is "mostly distributed in Eastern Europe, only small quantities are diverted to North America."
Despite AMD's lack of admission that they are outright exiting the industry, it is obvious they are at least downsizing. Industry analysts point out that AMD may simply be evaluating whether the product line is worth competing in at all: The DRAM business is not critical to AMD, and is highly competitive. In the past, AMD has managed those risks by simply rebranding other memory manufactures products with the "Radeon" title, but perhaps even that did not prove lucrative enough for them. Only time will tell. For now, the product line is obviously in a state of limbo.
Source:
PCWorld
When AMD was asked if it was planning to exit the memory business altogether, a company spokesperson replied that the memory is still being sold but is "mostly distributed in Eastern Europe, only small quantities are diverted to North America."
31 Comments on AMD's Radeon Memory Business at a Standstill
In 2013 I assembled a PC for my friend and bought two AMD 4GB 1600MHz CL9 memory sticks (they were the cheapest at the time) for his Intel Core i5 3570. The system, even though it had the latest BIOS installed, refused to POST (for the first time in my life) - I tried to leave just one stick installed, tried every memory slot - all to no avail. I returned the memory modules and I've never bought any AMD branded memory since.
As for the rest of your claims, anything is possible. This is largely industry speculation at this point, and so called "analysts" have been wrong before. ;)
What you said could also be applied to Intel SSDs, right? They shouldn't be used with AMD systems, right? You may want to educate yourself first before spilling such utter nonsense.
By the way KIDDO the only nonsense being spewed is from your fingers here like you did at the Division topic. So know your place and tread lightly before you drown.
Don't be a douchebag
AMD have Franchised the Brand to various Companys
The only thing that comes to mind when I see sticks labeled for a particular platform, I can only think of instability.
Drum roll ............................. the RAMDRIVE SOFTWARE ....................cymbal clash
With my experimentation I believe the spd tables and mobo bios determine what ram can and can't do, example my ram at 2400 will run at its tightest of 10 cas with 16GB, bear in mind this is 2133 ram, drop it to 9 the rig only will allow single channel and only 8gb of it are useable.
See my signature.
Edit: I wasn't talking about OC'ing, XMP or anything like that. Even safe mode with relaxed timings and low frequency (1333MHz) didn't help - but you know better, right?
Actually don't bother. I've just black listed you. Your tone is extremely offensive and you give exactly zero evidence of imaginary incompatibilities. And there's no need to remind me of the thread where I was 100% polite, while the angry mob decided to attack me because I asked the same question twice since I didn't get an answer the first time. Right-o. I should be ashamed of that. In your imaginary universe.
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