> Intel could enable AVX-512 tomorrow. They can't just enable AVX-512 on their chips that include both performance and efficiency cores, because it's only pres

> Intel could enable AVX-512 tomorrow. They can't just enable AVX-512 on their chips that include both performance and efficiency cores, because it's only present on the perf cores. > Intel could more fully open up their fabs to other companies tomorrow. Their fabs are open to other companies. they have multiple customers already signed on to make their chips on 18A/1.8nm process that enters mass production next year, including Amazon and the DoD. > Intel could publicly commit to producing silicon with no Management Engine tomorrow. Do real people actually care about the presence or absence of the IME to such a degree that it would be worth redesigning a bunch of their products and greatly increasing the number of individual SKUs? ... and, your first point "Intel could lower the price on their HEDT chips tomorrow". Well.. they could I suppose? They are pretty irrelevant when it comes to HEDT chips anyway though considering how crazy Threadrippers are. Would they really sell more of them if they knocked a couple hundred off their 2000/3000 lines? probably not. they're all under 5GHz anyway.