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"price gouging" is a myopic view of what goes on in the CPU/GPU market. intel/amd could not afford to sell hardware at consumer prices if buyers could turn aro
by leetcrew 7y ago
"price gouging" is a myopic view of what goes on in the CPU/GPU market.
intel/amd could not afford to sell hardware at consumer prices if buyers could turn around and put those consumer parts in servers at scale. in the alternate universe where certain features aren't disabled for consumer parts, your i7 costs as much a a xeon; you don't get xeon features for i7 money.
- zozbot234 7y agoYes, as someone has said elsewhere, they might essentially be selling you their chips at a deep "discount", while making that discount conditional on forgoing some desirable features. It's pretty much the same thing, just with a different framing placed on it.