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> Honestly I wish they'd gone a step further and required ECC support. That's a non-starter because Intel upsell ECC as an "enterprise"/"prosumer" feature and
by sofixa 4y ago
> Honestly I wish they'd gone a step further and required ECC support.
That's a non-starter because Intel upsell ECC as an "enterprise"/"prosumer" feature and regular, non-high-end/workstation/server processors don't support ECC. Sadly Intel is still the CPU market leader, so that would have meant Win11 not being able to run on most existing hardware at launch.
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- cptskippy 4y agoYes, how different are Intel's consumer CPUs from their Enterprise? Is ECC disabled physically in their CPUs or is it simply a software limitation? AMD's CPUs have ECC support but the motherboard manufacturers don't support it. Intel has been shipping TPMs in CPUs for a while. That begs the question, is Intel dictating requirements to Microsoft or is Microsoft dictating them to Intel?