AMD HPC Vendor Lock up Forgot to drop 3 lines about AMD. Having an R&D budget about 10% of Nvidia or Intel's, in 2018-2020 they managed to win the CPU market of PC power users (with their ThreadRippers) - ML / CG / VFX etc Then they proceeded with ThreadRipper PRO, which was a buggy fail, while their enterprise EPYC line was a great success. And as usual with success comes vendor lock up. New ML hardware platforms from SuperMicro for AMD EPYC processors ... are sold only assembled with A100 or H100 GPUs. Why? Because you can charge 2-3x markup on "assembled" + trade wars. Sad but true. Capitalism never changes. They always ride the wave of "enthusiasts and power users" to ultimately betray them and charge 10x for basically the same hardware.