[waterTanuki]

> After some more back-and-forth, Kilpatrick asked bluntly whether the flag being set to FALSE on consumer chips was a silicon-level limitation or a firmware policy decision — since one is permanent and the other is potentially reversible. Limonciello’s reply effectively closed the chapter. “My apologies, but I don’t have any more information to share on this topic,” he wrote.

Too many people downplaying this as a simple business decision from AMDs side but the response here is what really makes this a story.

Where there's smoke, there's fire.