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End customers demand features for a price. If there's unused silicon in a chip, but it costs the same or cheaper and has the features they want, I think you'd
by ethbr0 5y ago
End customers demand features for a price.
If there's unused silicon in a chip, but it costs the same or cheaper and has the features they want, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a customer who's going to complain.
- fragmede 5y agoIf it's possible, customers will buy as many of the cheap ones as they can, at the lower price, and aftermarket enable the unused silicon to get a better product, for less money, which may make the business people unhappy. This happened with some GPUs where they could be "upgraded" to be a better product with a soldering iron.
- ethbr0 5y agoI'm familiar, I've gotten a few free AMD cores. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19Ms49ip5PBB7nYnf5urxsySvH-Sdy6liE2EBDaB8b54/edit https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19Ms49ip5PBB7nYnf5urx... At the end of the day, I don't understand the umbrage at companies segmenting by software instead of hardware. As long as it's obvious what you're getting when you buy, and what you buy lives up to what you were promised, why should I care what it actually is? If the company chooses to look the other way and allow relatively easy unlocks without promising stability, well, that's nice. But nothing I'm owed just because it was physically on the chip. Now on the other hand, if a consumer company switches from a product model to a lease/HaaS model... that's an entirely different can of worms, and they can go to hell.
- summm 5y agoGreat. Where can I get a CPU where that stupid Intel ME or AMD crap is just permanently fused off, and even pay less for it?
- charcircuit 5y agoYour computer won't boot if they are fused off. They are a necessary component of the CPU.
- ethbr0 5y agoYou are paying less for it, in retail CPU prices that are contingent on the same model with ME features being sold to integrators and enterprise organizations who use it.