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AMD可能要面對法律問題了
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With Tom's Hardware reporting that the RX 480 draws (substantially) more than the 75W allowed from the motherboard (for example, the PCI Express high-power card spec allows a maximum of 66W to be drawn from the 12V pins of the PCI Express slot, and the RX 480 averages79W from the 12V lines alone) AMD seems to be violating the PCI Express(NYSE:R) spec.
According to the licensing contract for the spec, if they do not fix this within 3 months, AMD will NOT be able to call the card a PCI Express card. If they do, they face not only litigation, but if my understanding is correct an action before the U.S. International Trade Commission (NYSE:ITC) to ban the importation of the card as counterfeit goods. You might think the PCI-SIG will give AMD a pass, but if they do, they risk loosing the trademark entirely. An unforced trademark gets invalidated. The SIG won't let that happen.
In any case, AMD will be forced to fix the problem. This will likely be through a driver download or bios update that will further throttle performance of the cards. But as soon as they do that, it's a class action, because consumers will be able to legitimately claim a form of bait and switch.
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