This is such a crap take... -_- ... AMD was on freaking life support in 2016... They didn't have the money to launch & support two ENTIRELY DIFFERENT server CPU platforms! They BARELY had the money to get the familiar x86 based Zen 1 out the door, and even then it was initially held together with nothing but duct-tape & prayers!
I get why Jim Keller's upset. He's a chip design LEGEND who had a fully custom CPU core that he spent a ton of time & work designing canceled right after he left. Who wouldn't be upset at least somewhat in that situation?
But Lisa Wu made by FAR the right choice in making that call! Zen needed all hands & money on deck as a last ditch attempt to literally save the company. Diverting a bunch of their EXTREMELY limited resources to a HUGE & risky bet on the then totally unproven (in HPC compute) ARM platform could have EASILY been a death sentence for AMD as a whole...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
