Intel's software-defined silicon service will let organizations pay money to enable features that are hardwired into future Xeon server processors such as Intel

Intel's software-defined silicon service will let organizations pay money to enable features that are hardwired into future Xeon server processors such as Intel Software Guard Extensions, signaling a major shift in how users pay for computer chips. That's an... interesting way of framing it. It would be more accurate to say that intel plans to intentionally break their own hardware and then ransom that functionality back to users. I wonder how much cheaper these chips might have been to manufacture if not for all the superfluous DRM bloat and engineering time squandered on its development. In some ways this is a continuation of their behavior a few years ago when they were abusing their market dominance in earnest. I hope AMD stays away from this cancer and continues to make superior processors. I would like to think the market can kill this practice, but given how it's spreading in the automotive industry im not holding my breath.