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This isn't a good explanation for why AMD would act stupid. But there still needs to be one.
It's not stupid of AMD not to start a turf war where both they and they patron saint are hurt.
They get to eat the scraps and have the occasional win so that nvidia and intel don't face impotent mealymouthed anti-trust procedures.
You can either come up with a better alternative explanation, I can lawyer up a perfectly cromulent explanation that doesn't require exposing the corrupt underbelly of the silicon industry, or you can think that everyone at AMD is an idiots snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
AMD is far ahead of intel in iGPUs. Key to laptop and mini pc segments. Desktop motherboards are bad at USB 4, and so 4 monitor support, and performance per watt. Desktop PC vendors, with external GPUs, don't promise exact number (3+) of monitors supported.
Intel is the one that needed AMD to survive to avoid monopoly designation many years ago. That hasn't stopped AMD from kicking Intel's ass in iGPUs. 2+ generations ahead where latest high end intel barely outperforms 680m, with AMD having 780m cheaper, and 8600s and 890m. AMD is not "being thankful" to Intel by refusing to compete with it.
Nvidia was never under monopoly scrutiny. AMD making stupid decisions on drivers and memory configurations has no explanation. Industry underbelly NVIDIA bribes to CEO would be an explanation.