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“Intel Software Defined Silicon” Coming to Linux
- daenney 5y agoI can’t wait for this to turn into a monthly subscription. With the ME validating it by checking in with a remote license server.
- BruiseLee 5y agoImagine the possibilities: pricing per core/per billion of instructions executed. Turbo boost add-on package for only $9.99/month. AVX512 free with enterprise subscription or only $29.99/month for individuals.
- BizarroLand 5y agoUh oh! You're used up all of your compute units for your current tier this month! Upgrade to our Silver+ plan now to get an additional 5 hours of computer usage and a 3% clock speed modifier!
- gautamcgoel 5y agoIs it just me, or is this completely fucking dystopian?
- jdalgetty 5y agoNope
- joelbondurant 5y agoLet the Fact-Check Algorithm from the Science Ministry be the judge.
- mkr-hn 5y agoIt's never a good sign when a company sees competitors running laps around it and responds with something that will only accelerate migrations to those competitors. Someone somewhere in Intel told them this is the way to beat that upstart TSMC and someone with authority pushed it through against the warnings of anyone with both sense and influence. Sent from my Ryzen 5 4500U laptop with two Apple ARM chips in close orbit
- bitwize 5y agoIt's called retreating upmarket, (Norm Macdonald voice) or as I like to call it, digging your own grave. Companies do it all the time. And usually a short time later, they either die or become irrelevant. Look what happened to Embarcadero as they retreated to nickel-and-diming existing enterprise customers. They're completely irrelevant, despite TP and Delphi having been legendary products. Embarcadero is only a thing because Borland did the same thing two decades ago, spinning off their programmer tools so they could chase the enterprise SDLC dollar, and there's nothing left of Borland because they've been completely absorbed by the Micro Focus sarlacc. Intel is demonstrating that they can't compete on x86 performance, and where raw performance isn't the goal, ARM is now completely adequate thanks in part to Apple Silicon. So they're retreating to nickel-and-diming enterprises to death with this crazy on-chip DLC scheme, and there may well be some takers. But the real action will be on commodity hardware -- perhaps even open-source hardware, and Intel will be servicing a dwindling (but deep-pocketed) customer base. Their lunch will be slowly eaten unless they pull a real rabbit out of their hat.
- olliej 5y agoI went to this article expecting that it would be the obvious thing: integrated FPGAs. I came out with a dystopian "monthly recurring license fee to use parts of the processor you already paid for"
- anamax 5y agoIBM did something similar decades ago. They had a computer system that was leased three ways: [1] n kHz clock [2] n+m kHz clock [3] n kHz clock most of the time, but you could pay for n+m kHz clock for limited periods of time. [2] cost more than [1]. [3] could cost less than [2] yet still let you deal with peak usage that [1] wouldn't handle.
- bitwize 5y agoOn-disc DLC for chips, fuck you Intel.
- voakbasda 5y agoThank you, Intel, for making it easy to choose AMD for my future x86 computing needs.