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Are there realistic situations where a customer would realize they need the extra silicon partway into owning the chip? Some of the features I can see this, e.g
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Are there realistic situations where a customer would realize they need the extra silicon partway into owning the chip? Some of the features I can see this, e.g. a business need could emerge and it would be nice to just activate a module rather than upgrade physical hardware. With others, like the balancing feature for telecoms, I’d think all telecoms would purchase with the feature in mind from the start.
- acdha 4y agoI think this is a bad idea (people left IBM in the 70s for this) but I’d bet the pitch is something like enterprises reassigning equipment or trying to reduce the number of different things they purchase, where you’d only enable it on the servers where you need it. I’d be surprised if many customers found that effective, however, and I’m betting there’ll be at least one fun security exploit either bricking systems or figuring out how to get Intel to bill someone.