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> Sincerely, - A larger chunk of your potential customers than you think I wish this were true, but in reality it's pretty far from that. What do you count the
by genocidicbunny 4y ago
> Sincerely, - A larger chunk of your potential customers than you think
I wish this were true, but in reality it's pretty far from that. What do you count the tens or hundreds of thousands of potential customers amongst the sea of tens or hundreds or thousands of millions of real customers? A rounding error.
A huge chunk of their market _wants_ these features, another huge chunk just doesn't care, and there's a small (and at times very passionately vocal) minority that cares and doesn't want them.
But this is all setting up for a response to:
> Until then, I will never buy a new x86 processor ever again.
Don't hold your breath; It's not likely you'll ever have the opportunity to spend your money on x86 with the given conditions.
- anonym29 4y agoI've addressed this argument further down in the comments. TL;DR: Google wants servers with no Intel (CS)ME. If you don't think other big tech corporations feel the same way, or that the collective purchasing power of a few of the world's big tech companies' server budgets is a significant amount of money, I don't know what will convince you. There may only be tens or hundreds of thousands of customers, but tens of those customers are going to want hundreds of thousands of individual units. I have no doubt annual sales for modern X86 silicon without the "security" coprocessors would be in the millions of units for the first few years, at a minimum.