Comment Headline wrong (Score 1) 117
The proper headline would be "AMD made a very bad choice, and Valve suffers because they choose AMD".
AMD (unlike Nvidia and Intel) choose to not include the protocol enumeration in their firmware (which they apparently plan to do moving forward (they learned the lesson), which required them to do it in software. They knew they would need to make the protocol public, which the license and NDA they signed did not allow. They did try to convince the HDMI forum to let them publish the protocol, which the HDMI forum decided not to do (as was always their right, and the most likely outcome, but AMD needed to try). Valve choose to select AMD knowing HDMI 2.1 was not likely to be available. So, bad on AMD, and bad on Valve.