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Intel's Haswell lineup takes market segmentation to a pretty extreme level. There's 22 Haswell cpu models on the lineup. They have clearly targeted some chips
by exDM69 13y ago
Intel's Haswell lineup takes market segmentation to a pretty extreme level. There's 22 Haswell cpu models on the lineup. They have clearly targeted some chips for gamers and others for server use.
You can't get an "unlocked" cpu with virtualization, but you can get the same chip locked with virtualization extensions. I guess the purpose is to avoid customers buying unlocked chips and overclock them for a diy server setup and get them to buy the more expensive server chips.
Process binning I can understand, it's a way to try to improve the silicon yield. But artificial crippling, when taken to this kind of extremes feels a bit dishonest to me. But that's just the way the semiconductor industry works, I guess.
- baq 13y ago1. intel likes money. 2. if you want the best (general purpose desktop/server) silicon, you have to buy intel. 3. if you don't have as much money as intel likes, it generously offers you a, um, de-featured version of their silicon at a, erm, discount.
- marshray 13y agoPresumably AMD has all their chip engineers engaged in trying to make their chips more performant.
- voidlogic 13y ago>>You can't get an "unlocked" cpu with virtualization, but you can get the same chip locked with virtualization extensions The 4770K has the core virtualization function VT-x and VT-EPT, just not VT-d. I believe this has often been the case for desktop vs server CPUs; Intel needs to distinguish its desktop vs. server offerings after all. The 4770 is locked and gains VT-d and TSX-NI. http://ark.intel.com/products/75123/Intel-Core-i7-4770K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz http://ark.intel.com/products/75123/Intel-Core-i7-4770K-Proc...