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This is a death knell for Intel. They have been floundering lately, and this move helped pushed me to make my new workstation use AMD. These kind of shenaniga

This is a death knell for Intel. They have been floundering lately, and this move helped pushed me to make my new workstation use AMD. These kind of shenanigans are a complete turn off, because it shows a lack of respect for their customers. They could just give us all the cores, but instead they chose to spend a lot of engineering resources to artificially limit supply in order to profit from the demand. They may take a long time to fall, but I will avoid them from here on out unless they change their ways.

mhh__ 5y ago
> Death knell Intel's operating income is still roughly the size of AMD whole revenue, and they've just got their crown back on all but the highest end desktop class CPUs. Intel are very good at selling computer chips, this move sounds dumb (and it is), but the idea that the company is dying now (as opposed to 3 years ago) is quite silly IMO.
- bcrl 5y ago
  This kind of product market segmentation is something that isn't done by technical people. The sales folks think they can extract more revenue from their products by doing this. Once technical decisions are being made by marketing, that's a clear sign that a tech company is in decline. It's no longer about what is best for the product, which means that Intel has lost the focus needed to create technically excellent products. It's definitely a sign of decline.