also to be clear, management engine is far far worse. the chipset boots the chip for Intel, Ryzen is a SOC always. For intel, it's super intimately involved with the processor bringup in ways that can't be exposed to third parties anymore. They literally can't open anything while the ME is on the chipset, but they're flailing at homeostasis let alone big rearchs of their processor's brainstem against the possibility of third-party control of the bringup.
The chipset is a pure IO expander for AMD. AMD still is doing way better at that, it's just things like X300 ("the chipset is no chipset") being restricted to industrial/embedded, or board partners not being allowed to pursue things they want that break AMD's segmentation. PCIe 4 enablement (including opt-in) on select X370/X470 boards was something partners wanted for example. And there was no technical reason for X399/TRX40 to be segmented and even WRX80 could have been shoehorned on with "everything works just not optimally" level compatibility backwards and forwards. Partners could have done that if it wasn't denied/locked out. They did it on the Socket SP3 flavor.
Partners should ideally just get the freedom to play, and if they can make something work, cool. Let's have more Asrock/Asrock Rack and ICY DOCK design shenanigans again. Clamshell VRAM cards should be sold relatively close to actual cost rather than being gated by both AMD and NVIDIA. Etc. Partners should have the ability to configure the product in any way the product could reasonably be engineered to work. If features are being explicitly segmented by product tier it should be enforced by e-fuse feature-fusing at launch and that's the deal, no taking AVX-512 out after it launched.
The chipset is a pure IO expander for AMD. AMD still is doing way better at that, it's just things like X300 ("the chipset is no chipset") being restricted to industrial/embedded, or board partners not being allowed to pursue things they want that break AMD's segmentation. PCIe 4 enablement (including opt-in) on select X370/X470 boards was something partners wanted for example. And there was no technical reason for X399/TRX40 to be segmented and even WRX80 could have been shoehorned on with "everything works just not optimally" level compatibility backwards and forwards. Partners could have done that if it wasn't denied/locked out. They did it on the Socket SP3 flavor.
Partners should ideally just get the freedom to play, and if they can make something work, cool. Let's have more Asrock/Asrock Rack and ICY DOCK design shenanigans again. Clamshell VRAM cards should be sold relatively close to actual cost rather than being gated by both AMD and NVIDIA. Etc. Partners should have the ability to configure the product in any way the product could reasonably be engineered to work. If features are being explicitly segmented by product tier it should be enforced by e-fuse feature-fusing at launch and that's the deal, no taking AVX-512 out after it launched.