What's behind Origin PC's decision to so publicly dump AMD video cards?

Update note: This article was originally posted 10-4-13 but was updated on 10-7-13 with additional comments from Origin PC co-founder Richard Cary. 

One week after AMD took the wraps off its next-gen R7- and R9-series Radeon GPUs, and one day after the first wave of Radeon R9 290X graphics cards hit online retailer Newegg, Kevin Wasielewski, CEO of the boutique PC builder Origin PC, informed some in the media (including PCWorld) that his company will no longer sell machines with AMD graphics cards inside.

Given the timing, you have to wonder about Origin’s motivations. Indeed, it’s especially odd that a PC manufacturer would go out of its way to tell the press that it’s dropping support for a specific component manufacturer. This is not the kind of move that usually warrants a communication to journalists.

Here’s an excerpt from Wasielewski’s statement, which bore the subject line of “Origin PC is going green!”

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