What I mean is that they could say "We actually never promised there will be lots of stock to go around, that was just a rumor"
My point is that AMD still wants people to hold on hopes there will be lots of stock at launch, but instead of committing to it they just pass it around to a rumor website so they can still get the same excitement from people but without actually committing and then failing to deliver.
My suspicion is almost always than any accurate rumors that run fairly close to release dates (couple months like this case) it's actually not a rumor at all and just the company's marketing team trying to get some interest in their upcoming launches while also being able to make outrageous promises the actual engineers (Or in this case, board partners and forge) can't possibly deliver on. It still gets you talking about an upcoming product under manipulative, false pretense of "leaked info"
I understand what you said but this wasn't a rumour. I was having trouble finding what I was referring to but I finally did:
"In a recent tweet, a VR developer called Andre Elijah expressed his disappointment that he was unable to acquire an Nvidia RTX 3090 graphics card. Within this tweet, Andre bet $10 that AMD's RDNA 2 series of graphics cards would 'be a paper launch too.' In response, AMD's Frank Azor said this: 'I look forward to taking your $10'"
Source: overclock3d.net
Frank Azor is Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions at AMD. If
HE says something, it can no longer be considered "Just a rumour" because someone like him would be "in the know" when it comes to Radeon products. He single-handedly destroyed their plausible deniability with that tweet. AMD couldn't say "Oh it was just a rumour" when one of their high-level managers said the exact opposite. I was just pointing out that AMD didn't do that for the RDNA2 launch, they just
lied through their teeth and that
really pissed me off. That's what I was trying to convey. I wasn't disagreeing with you because in general, unless you know who to take your info from, they could easily "leak" a bunch of misinformation.
I personally believe that as long as the rumour source that you're getting your info from has been reliable in the past, you should be ok.
I would personally recommend RedGamingTech, GamerMeld, Moore's Law is Dead, I'm a Mac or Not an Apple Fan because even with "plausible deniability", if their sources lie to them, they'll stop using those sources.
As good as they are though, I would
definitely recommend AdoredTV above all the others. Jim's the best investigative tech journalist that I've seen since Charlie Demerjian. It appeared that he had quit and was gone for a good six months or so which really sucked. He did come back though and it sure was great to hear that familiar Scotsman's brogue say "Alright guys, how's it goin'" again after so long.
I started watching him a few months before the release of Zen and I've been blown away by his predictions and market analysis in every video that he has ever made. When he makes a statement about something, I don't consider it to be a rumour. If he says something, you don't have to take it with a grain of salt because he
never speculates. If he's not 100% sure, he won't say anything at all.
He was actually the first to "leak" that EPYC Genoa would have up to 128 cores when everyone else said no more than 64 and some actually argued with him about it.
However, just as I'd always previously seen when another expert disagreed with him, Jim was right, they were wrong and life went on as usual.